Potters
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
potters · potter
in the texts
Epigrams
Craft workers who make pots and are asked to reward the singer honestly.
Potters, if you will give me a reward, I will sing for you.
Grant that the potters may get great gain and grant me so to sing to them.
But if you turn shameless and make false promises, then I call together the destroyers of kilns,
Republic
The class of craftsmen who make pottery, used as an illustration of how wealth and poverty degrade a craftsman's work.
And yet again, if from poverty he is unable to provide himself with tools and other requirements of his art, the work that he turns out will be worse, and he will also make inferior workmen of his sons or any others whom he teaches.
For in like manner we could clothe the farmers in robes of state and deck them with gold and bid them cultivate the soil at their pleasure, and we could make the potters recline on couches from left to right before the fire drinking toasts and feasting with their wheel alongside to potter with when they are so disposed, and we can make all the others happy in the same fashion, so that thus the ent …