[470a]
if we are at all concerned to
preserve friendly relations with the other Greeks. Rather we shall fear that
there is pollution in bringing such offerings to the temples from our kind
unless in a case where the god bids otherwise1.”
“Most rightly,” he said. “And in the matter of
devastating the land of Greeks and burning their houses, how will your
soldiers deal with their enemies.” “I would gladly hear
your opinion of that.” “In my view,”
1 For similar caution cf. on 427 B-C.
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.