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[566e] and promise many things in private and public, and having freed men from debts, and distributed lands to the people and his own associates, he affects a gracious and gentle manner to all?” “Necessarily,” he said. “But when, I suppose, he has come to terms with some of his exiled enemies1 and has got others destroyed and is no longer disturbed by them, in the first place he is always stirring up some war2 so that the people may be in need of a leader.” “That is likely.”

1 Not “foreign enemies” as almost all render it. Cf. my note on this passage in Class. Rev. xix. (1905) pp. 438-439, 573 B ἔξω ὠθεῖ, Theognis 56, Thuc. iv. 66 and viii. 64.

2 Cf. Polit. 308 A, and in modern times the case of Napoleon.

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