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to expel him or bring about his
death by calumniating him to the people, they plot to assassinate him by
stealth.” “That is certainly wont to happen,”
said he. “And thereupon those who have reached this stage devise
that famous petition1 of
the tyrant—to ask from the people a bodyguard to make their city
safe2 for the friend of democracy.”
1 Cf Herod. i. 59, Aristot.Rhet. 1357 b 30 ff. Aristotle, Pol. 1305 a 7-15, says that this sort of thing used to happen but does not now, and explains why. For πολυθρύλητον Cf. Phaedo 100 B.
2 For the ethical dative αὐτοῖς cf. on 343 Vol. I. p. 65, note c.
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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