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to speak of the soul as
a whole1—also will least of all do what it wishes,
but being always perforce driven and drawn by the gadfly of desire it will
be full of confusion and repentance.2” “Of course.”
“And must the tyrannized city
1 Cf. Cratyl. 392 Cὡς τὸ ὅλον εἰπεῖν γένος.
2 Cf. Julian, Or. ii. 50 C. In the Stoic philosophy the stultus repents, and “omnis stultitia fastidio laborat sui.” Cf. also Seneca, De benef. iv. 34 “non mutat sapiens consilium . . . ideo numquam illum poenitentia subit,” Von Arnim, Stoic. Vet. Frag. iii. 147. 21, 149. 20 and 33, Stob.Ec. ii. 113. 5, 102. 22, and my emendation of Eclogues ii. 104. 6 W. in Class. Phil. xi. p. 338.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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