[547b]
“Well, then,” said he,
“what do the Muses say next?” “When strife
arose,” said I, “the two groups were pulling against
each other, the iron and bronze towards money-making and the acquisition of
land and houses and gold and silver, and the other two, the golden and
silvern, not being poor, but by nature rich in their souls,1 were trying to draw them back to
virtue and their original constitution, and thus, striving and contending
against one another, they compromised2 on the plan of
distributing and taking for themselves the land and the houses,
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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