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    Plato, Republic

    Socrates

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    [621d] as the victors in the games1 go about to gather in theirs. And thus both here and in that journey of a thousand years, whereof I have told you, we shall fare well.2

    1 Cf. Vol. I. p. 480, note c, on 465 D.

    2 For the thought Cf. Gorg. 527 Ceudaimonêseis kai zôn kai teleutêsas. Cf. Vol. I. p. 104, note b, on 353 E. The quiet solemnity of eu prattômen illustrates the same characteristic of style that makes Plato begin his Laws with the word theos, and Dante close each of the three sections of the Divine Comedy with “stelle.”

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    Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
    OCLC: 1886340
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