The Republic · Rep. 468e

Yes, I said; and when a man dies gloriously in war shall we not say, in the first place, that he is of the golden race?

Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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