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“Then,” said I, “we have our second polity
and second type of man.” “We have,” he
said.“Shall we then, as
Aeschylus: would say, “‘tell of
another champion before another gate,’”Aesch. Seven 4511 or rather, in accordance with our
plan,2 the city first?” “That, by all
means,” he said. “The next polity, I believe, would be
oligarchy.” “And what kind of a regime,” said
he, “do you understand by oligarchy?” “That
based on a property qualification,3”
said I, “wherein the rich hold office
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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