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1 For the idiom οὐδὲν δεόμενος cf. 581 E, 367 A-B, 410 B, 405 C, Prot. 331 C, and Shorey in Class. Journ. ii. p. 171.
2 For ancient denials of the justice of slavery cf. Newman, Aristot.Pol. i. pp. 140 ff., Philemon, fr. 95 (Kock ii. p. 508)κἂν δοῦλος ἐστί, σάρκα τὴν αὐτὴν ἔχει, φύσει γὰρ οὐδεὶς δοῦλος ἐγενήθη ποτέ. ἡ δ᾽ αὖ τύχη τὸ σῶμα κατεδουλώσατο, and Anth. Pal. vii. 553 with Mackail's note, p. 415.
3 Cf. p. 360, note a. For the tyrant's terrors cf. Menander,Ἀσπίς(fr. 74, Kock iii p. 24), Tacitus, Ann. vi. 6, 579 E and Xen.Hiero 6.8. The tyrant sees enemies everywhere.
4 Cf. Xen.Hiero 1. 12 οἱ δὲ τύραννοι οὐ μάλα ἀμφὶ θεωρίας ἔχουσιν: οὔτε γὰρ ἰέναι αὐτοῖς ἀσφαλές. Cf. Crito 52 Bἐπὶ θεωρίαν.
5 Cf. Laws 781 C, Gorg. 485 D.
6 τοῖς τοιούτοις κακοῖς is the measure of the excess of the unhappiness of the actual tyrant over that of the tyrannical soul in private life. Cf. my review of Jowett, A.J.P. xiii. p. 366.
7 Cf. 580 C and What Plato Said, p. 506, on Gorg. 491 D.
8 For the analogy of soul and body cf. 591 B and on 564 D, p. 313, note g.
9 Cf. Soph. 252 Cὅμοιόν τε καὶ ἀληθές.
10 Cf. on 576 C, p. 354, note b.
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