[460b]
“And
on the young men, surely, who excel in war and other pursuits we must bestow
honors and prizes, and, in particular, the opportunity of more frequent
intercourse with the women, which will at the same time be a plausible
pretext for having them beget as many of the children as
possible.” “Right.” “And the
children thus born will be taken over by the officials appointed for this,
men or women or both, since, I take it, the official posts too are common to
women and men.
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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