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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 8 Browse Search
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Plato, Republic, Book 4, section 423a (search)
very persons of the other, you will continue always to have few enemies and many allies. And so long as your city is governed soberly in the order just laid down, it will be the greatest of cities. I do not mean greatest in repute, but in reality, even though it have only a thousandAristotle, Politics 1261 b 38, takes this as the actual number of the military class. Sparta, according to Xenephon, Rep. Lac. 1. 1, was TW=N O)LIGANQRWPOTA/TWN PO/LEWN, yet one of the strongest. Cf. also Aristotle Politics 1270 a 14 f. In the LawsPlato proposes the number 5040 which Aristotle thinks too large, Politics 1265 a 15. defenders. For a city of this size
Plato, Republic, Book 8, section 548a (search)
ng itself with war most of the time—in these respects for the most part its qualities will be peculiar to itself?” “Yes.” “Such men,” said I, “will be avid of wealth, like those in an oligarchy, and will cherish a fierce secret lust for goldThis was said to be characteristic of Sparta. Cf. Newman on Aristot.Pol. 1270 a 13, Xen.Rep. Lac. 14, 203 and 7. 6, and the Chicago Dissertation of P. H. Epps, The Place of Sparta in Greek History and Civilization, pp. 180-184. and silver, owning storehousesCf. 416 D. and private treasuries where they may hide them away, and also the enclosuresCf. Laws 681 A, Theaet. 174 E. of their homes, literal
Plato, Republic, Book 8, section 548b (search)
different, suggests Sallust's “alieni appetens sui profusus” (Cat. 5). Cf. Cat. 52 “publice egestatem, privatim opulentiam.” because of their appetites, enjoyingCf. 587 A, Laws 636 D, Symp. 187 E, Phaedr. 251 E. their pleasures stealthily, and running away from the law as boys from a father,Cf. Aristot.Pol. 1270 b 34 with Newman's note; and Euthyphro 2 C “tell his mother the state.” since they have not been educated by persuasionCf. Laws 720 D-E. This is not inconsistent with Polit. 293 A, where the context and the point of view are different. but by force because of their neglect of the true Muse, the companion of discussion and
Plato, Republic, Book 8, section 552a (search)
“By no manner of means.” “Consider now whether this polity is not the first that admits that which is the greatest of all such evils.” “What?” “The allowing a man to sell all his possessions,So in the Laws the householder may not sell his lot, Laws 741 B-C, 744 D-E. Cf. 755 A, 857 A, Aristot.Pol. 1270 a 19, Newman i. p. 376. which another is permitted to acquire, and after selling them to go on living in the city, but as no part of it,Cf Aristot.Pol. 1326 a 20, Newman i. pp. 98 and 109. Cf Leslie Stephen, Util. ii. 111 “A vast populace has grown up outside of the old order.” neither a money-mak