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οὐδενὶ σχολὴ κτλ. Steinhart (Platon's Werke V p. 172) thinks it strange that so idealistic a thinker as Plato should not recognise the power of spiritual strength to rise superior to bodily weakness. This truth was not ignored by Plato (see infra 408 E and VI 496 B), although here, perhaps, he forgets that conspicuous examples of fortitude and resignation have a political as well as a private value: “they also serve who only stand and wait.”
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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