Plato, Statesman, section 264a

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[264a] For if their nature admits of domestication they are called tame; if it does not, they are called wild.

Younger Socrates
Excellent.

Stranger
But the science we are hunting for was, and is, to be sought among tame creatures, more specifically creatures in herds.

Younger Socrates
Yes.

Stranger
Let us, then, not make our division as we did before, with a view to all, nor in a hurry, with the idea that we may thus reach political science quickly,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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