[578b]
and other like considerations,
then, I take it, you judged that this city is the most miserable of
cities.” “And was I not right?” he said.
“Yes, indeed,” said I. “But of the tyrant man,
what have you to say in view of these same things?”
“That he is far and away the most miserable of all,” he
said. “I cannot admit,” said I, “that you are
right in that too.” “How so?” said he.
“This one,” said I, “I take it, has not yet
attained the acme of misery.1” “Then who has?”
“Perhaps you will regard the one I am about to name as still more
wretched.”
1 Cf. on 508 E, p. 104, 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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