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and faction is the name we must give
to that enmity.” “I will allow you that habit of
speech,” he said. “Then observe,” said I,
“that when anything of this sort occurs in faction, as the word is
now used, and a state is divided against itself, if either party devastates
the land and burns the houses of the other such factional strife is thought
to be an accursed thing and neither party to be true patriots. Otherwise,
they would never have endured thus to outrage their nurse and mother.1 But the moderate and reasonable
thing is thought to be that the victors
1 Cf. 414 E, Menexenus 237 E, Timaeus 40 B, Laws 740 A, Aeschylus Septem 16.
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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