The City

Thus may all of us citizens best avoid defilement.

and if you yourselves give that attention to the trial which the considerations I have put before you demand, and inflict upon the criminal a punishment proportionate to the injury which he has done, you will cleanse the entire city of its defilement.

I forbade the ass-drivers, as I said, to touch the wood, and after giving notice to Phaenippus to attend the sacrifice, as the law commands, I went back to the city.

I would not be pressing you so urgently to study philosophy unless I thought that in this I was making you a most precious contribution as evidence of my goodwill, and unless I observed that our city often makes use of ordinary men for lack of men of the best type, and through their bungling incurs the gravest misfortunes.

Neither do I think that it will be in your power to live as chance decrees, but that the City will appoint you to be in charge of some department of her business, and in proportion as your natural gifts are the more conspicuous it will judge you worthy of greater responsibilities and will the sooner desire to make trial of you.

and I followed to the city.

This is nowhere here, where you were cast ashore;

The magistrates were going to the theatre, and I with them.

they fled the city, as though no longer able to see it with their own eyes.

And shall we not also need in our city, Glaucon, a permanent overseer of this kind if its constitution is to be preserved?

Then will you not establish by law in your city such an art of medicine as we have described in conjunction with this kind of justice?

Well then, as I was just saying, we must look for those who are the best guardians of the indwelling conviction that what they have to do is what they at any time believe to be best for the state.

Then reaching the sāla forest near the city of Kaliṅga, Bharata arrived swiftly, though his horses were utterly exhausted.