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As a whole, it resembles in character the rest of Crete.Athenian
You would call it hilly rather than level?Clinias
Certainly.Athenian
Then it would not be incurably unfit for the acquisition of virtue. For if the State was to be on the sea-coast, and to have fine harbors, and to be deficient in many products, instead of productive of everything,—in that case it would need a mighty savior and divine lawgivers, if, with such a character, it was to avoid having a variety of luxurious and depraved habits.1 As things are, however, there is consolation in the fact of that eighty stades. Still, it lies unduly near the sea, and the more so because, as you say, its harbors are good; that, however, we must make the best of.
1 Cp. Aristot. Pol. 7.6.
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- Aristotle, Politics, 7.1327b