Plato, Republic, section 566d

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[566d] overthrowing many others towers in the car of state¹ transformed from a protector into a perfect and finished tyrant.” “What else is likely?” he said.

“Shall we, then, portray the happiness,” said I, “of the man and the state in which such a creature arises?” “By all means let us describe it,” he said. “Then at the start and in the first days does he not smile² upon all men and greet everybody he meets and deny that he is a tyrant,

1 For the figure Cf. Polit. 266 E. More common in Plato is the figure of the ship in this connection. Cf. on 488.

2 Cf. Eurip.I. A. 333 ff., Shakes.Henry IV.Part I. I. iii. 246 “This king of smiles, this Bolingbroke.”

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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