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“Then,” I said,
“let us regard as disposed of the constitution called oligarchy,
whose rulers are determined by a property qualification.1 And next we are to
consider the man who resembles it—how he arises and what after
that his character is.” “Quite so,” he
said.“Is not the transition
from that timocratic youth to the oligarchical type mostly on this
wise?” “How?” “When a son born to
the timocratic man at first emulates his father, and follows in his
footsteps2 and then sees him
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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