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will dwell
together, and being commingled in gymnastics and in all their life and
education, will be conducted by innate necessity to sexual union. Is not
what I say a necessary consequence?” “Not by the
necessities of geometry,” he said, “but by those of
love,1 which are perhaps keener and more
potent than the other to persuade and constrain the
multitude.”“They are,
indeed,” I said; “but next, Glaucon, disorder and
promiscuity in these unions or
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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