[464e]
So that we can count on their being
free from the dissensions that arise among men from the possession of
property, children, and kin.” “They will necessarily be
quit of these,” he said. “And again, there could not
rightly arise among them any law-suit for assault or bodily injury. For as
between age-fellows1 we shall say that self-defence is
honorable and just, thereby compelling them to keep their bodies in
condition.” “Right,” he said.
1 Cf. A.J.P. vol. xiii. p. 364, Aeschines iii. 255, Xenophon Rep. Lac. 4. 5, Laws 880 A.
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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