Plato, Republic, Book 9, section 590a

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[590a] and is not taking the golden bribe much more disastrously than Eriphyle¹ did when she received the necklace as the price² of her husband's life?” “Far more,” said Glaucon, “for I will answer you in his behalf.”

“And do you not think that the reason for the old objection to licentiousness is similarly because that sort of thing emancipates that dread,³ that huge and manifold beast overmuch?” “Obviously,” he said. “And do we not censure self-will⁴

1 Cf. Od. xi. 326, Frazer on Apollodorus iii. 6. 2 (Loeb). Stallbaum refers also to Pindar, Nem. ix. 37 ff, and Pausan. x. 29. 7.

2 For ἐπί in this sense cf. Thompson on Meno 90 D. Cf. Apol. 41 Aἐπὶ πόσῳ, Demosth. xlv. 66.

3 See Adam ad loc. on the asyndeton.

4 αὐθάδεια: Cf. 548 E.

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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