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censures this as a reproach,1 and calls the man in this
plight unselfcontrolled and licentious.” “That seems
likely,” he said. “Turn your eyes now upon our new
city,” said I, “and you will find one of these
conditions existent in it. For you will say that it is justly spoken of as
master of itself if that in which2 the superior rules the inferior is to be called
sober and self-mastered.” “I do turn my eyes upon
it,” he said, “and it is as you say.”
“And again, the mob of motley3
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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