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οἶμον. A poetic word. Plato is perhaps thinking of some such phrase as Pindar's ἐπέων ο<*>μος (Ol. IX 47). The ‘way’ is simply that each class must do its own appointed work, if the city is to be a happy and harmonious whole: cf. 423 D. εἰ καὶ οὗτοι κτλ. καί means ‘as well as the rest of the city.’ Aristotle misrepresents Plato when, in spite of this sentence and V 465 D ff., he says that the guardians are deprived of εὐδαιμονία (Pol. B 5. 1264^{b} 15 ff., with Susemihl's note). They are happy not only because they triumph over self (465 D), but—like the others—because they do the work to which Nature has called them: cf. I 352 D —354 A. ὅπως ἕν τι κτλ. Cf. Laws 715 B and Thuc. II 60. 2, where Pericles says ἐγὼ γὰρ ἡγοῦμαι πόλιν πλείω ξύμπασαν ὀρθουμένην ὠφελεῖν τοὺς ἰδιώτας ἢ καθ᾽ ἕκαστον τῶν πολιτῶν εὐπραγοῦσαν, ἀθρόαν δὲ σφαλλομένην. ᾠήθημεν -- σκεψόμεθα. See on II 369 A.
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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