[547a]
Hesiod's and
our races of gold, silver, bronze and iron.1 And this intermixture of the iron with the silver
and the bronze with the gold will engender unlikeness2 and an unharmonious
unevenness, things that always beget war and enmity wherever they arise.
“‘Of this lineage, look
you,’”Hom. Il. 6.211 we must aver
the dissension to be, wherever it occurs and always.”
“‘And rightly too,’” he said,
“we shall affirm that the Muses answer.” “They
must needs,” I said, “since they are3 Muses.”
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.