[618a]
And after this again the prophet placed the patterns of
lives before them on the ground, far more numerous than the assembly. They
were of every variety, for there were lives of all kinds of animals and all
sorts of human lives, for there were tyrannies among them, some
uninterrupted till the end1 and
others destroyed midway and issuing in penuries and exiles and beggaries;
and there were lives of men of repute for their forms and beauty and bodily
strength otherwise
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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