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in point of contentiousness.”
“Perhaps,” said I, “in that, but I do not
think their natures are alike in the following respects.”
“In what?” “He will have to be somewhat
self-willed1 and lacking in culture,2 yet a lover of music
and fond of listening3 to talk and speeches, though by
no means himself a rhetorician;
1 αὐθαδέστερον. The fault of Prometheus (Aesch.P. V. 1034, 1937) and Medea must not be imputed to Glaucon.
2 Cf. Arnold, Culture and Anarchy, who imitates or parodies Plato throughout, e.g. p. 83 “A little inaccessible to ideas and light,” and pp. 54-55 “The peculiar serenity of aristocracies of Teutonic origin appears to come from their never having had any ideas to trouble them.”
3 Cf. 475 D, 535 D, Lysis 206 C.
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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