[568d]
as it were from
lack of breath1 unable to proceed.” “Quite
so.”“But
this,” said I, “is a digression.2 Let us return to that
fair, multitudinous, diversified and ever-changing bodyguard of the tyrant
and tell how it will be supported.”
“Obviously,” he said, “if there are sacred
treasures in the city he will spend these as long as they last and the
property of those he has destroyed, thus requiring smaller contributions
from the populace.”
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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