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so that
he may be forsooth a free man.1 And the resident alien feels
himself equal to the citizen and the citizen to him, and the foreigner
likewise.” “Yes, these things do happen,” he
said. “They do,” said I, “and such other
trifles as these. The teacher in such case fears and fawns upon the pupils,
and the pupils pay no heed to the teacher or to their overseers either. And
in general the young ape their elders and vie with them in speech and
action, while the old, accommodating2 themselves to the young,
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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