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are
full of pleasantry1 and graciousness, imitating the young
for fear they may be thought disagreeable and authoritative.”
“By all means,” he said. “And the climax of
popular liberty, my friend,” I said, “is attained in
such a city when the purchased slaves, male and female, are no less
free2
than the owners who paid for them. And I almost forgot to mention the spirit
of freedom and equal rights in the relation of men to women and women to
men.”
1 For εὐτραπελίας cf. Isoc. xv. 296, vii. 49, Aristotle, Eth. Nic. 1108 a 23. In Rhet. 1389 b 11 he defines it as πεπαιδευμένη ὕβρις. Arnold once addressed the Eton boys on the word.
2 Cf. Xen.Rep. Ath. 1. 10.τῶν δούλων δ᾽ αὖ καὶ τῶν μετοίκων πλείστη ἐστὶν Ἀθήνησιν ἀκολασία, Aristoph.Clouds init., and on slavery Laws 777 E, p. 249, note g on 547 C and 549 A.
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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