The Republic · Rep. 588a
Yet a true calculation, I said, and a number which nearly concerns human life, if human beings are concerned with days and nights and months and years.Read in context ›
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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