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so that the
farmers might have cattle for ploughing,1 and the builders oxen
to use with the farmers for transportation, and the weavers and cobblers
hides and fleeces for their use.” “It wouldn't be a
small city, either, if it had all these.” “But
further,” said I, “it is practically impossible to
establish the city in a region where it will not need imports.”
“It is.” “There will be a further need, then,
of those who will bring in from some other city what it requires.”
“There will.” “And again, if our servitor goes
forth empty-handed, not taking with him any of the things needed by those
1 Butcher's meat and pork appear first in the luxurious city, 373 C. We cannot infer that Plato was a vegetarian.
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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