[588e]
to
look within1 but who can
see only the external sheath it appears to be one living creature, the
man.” “The sheath is made fast about him,” he
said. “Let us, then say to the speaker who avers that it pays this
man to be unjust, and that to do justice is not for his advantage, that he
is affirming nothing else than that it profits him to feast and make strong
the multifarious beast and the lion and all that pertains to the lion,
1 Cf. 577 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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