[343b]
and the neat-herds are considering
the good of the sheep and the cattle and fatten and tend them with anything
else in view than the good of their masters and themselves; and by the same
token you seem to suppose that the rulers in our cities, I mean the real
rulers,1 differ at
all in their thoughts of the governed from a man's attitude towards his
sheep2
or that they think of anything else night and day than
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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