[471d]
most
successful in war because they would be least likely to desert one another,
knowing and addressing each other by the names of brothers, fathers, sons.
And if the females should also join in their campaigns, whether in the ranks
or marshalled behind to intimidate the enemy,1 or as reserves in case
of need, I recognize that all this too would make them irresistible. And at
home, also, I observe all the benefits that you omit to mention. But, taking
it for granted that I concede
1 Cf. Laws 806 B.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.