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great and small because of other legislators. But what
city credits you with having been a good legislator and having benefited
them? Italy and Sicily say this of Charondas and we of Solon.1
But who says it of you?’ Will he be able to name any?”
“I think not,” said Glaucon; “at any rate none
is mentioned even by the Homerids themselves.” “Well,
then,
1 Cf. Symp. 209 D, Phaedr. 258 B, 278 C, Charm. 155 A, 157 E, Prot. 343 A, Tim. 20 E ff., Herod. i. 29 ff. and 86, ii. 177, v. 113, Aristot.Ath. Pol. v. ff., Diog. Laert. i. 45 ff., Plutarch, Life of Solon,Freeman, The Work and Life of Solon.
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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