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everything in the city for
himself, then he will find out that Hesiod1 was indeed wise, who said that “‘the half was in some sort more than
the whole.’”Hes. WD 40
“If he accepts my counsel,” he said, “he will
abide in this way of life.” “You accept, then, as we
have described it, this partnership of the women with our men in the matter
of education and children and the guardianship of the other citizens, and
you admit that both within the city and when they go forth to war they ought
to keep guard together and hunt together as it were like hounds,
1 Hes. WD 40. So Plat. Laws 690 E.
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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