Plato, Laws, Book 6, section 752a

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[752a] to lend you aid in the course of our present imaginative sketch. And indeed I should be loth to leave our sketch headless;¹ for it would look entirely shapeless if it wandered about in that guise.

Clinias
I heartily approve of what you say, Stranger.

Athenian
And what is more, I shall act as I say to the best of my power.

Clinias
By all means let us do as we say.

Athenian
It shall be done, if God will and if we can thus far master our old age.

1 Cp.Plat. Gorg. 505d ff.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 10 & 11 translated by R.G. Bury. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967 & 1968.

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