[615b]
so that on the assumption that this was
the length of human life the punishment might be ten times the crime; as for
example that if anyone had been the cause of many deaths or had betrayed
cities and armies and reduced them to slavery, or had been participant in
any other iniquity, they might receive in requital pains tenfold for each of
these wrongs, and again if any had done deeds of kindness and been just
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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