The Republic · ¶4778
Aristocracy (i.e. the ideal state or government of the best), 4. 445 C (cp. 8. 544 E, 545 D, and see State); mode of its decline, 8. 546; —the aristocratical man, 7. 541 B; 8. 544 E (see Guardians, Philosopher, Ruler): —(in the ordinary sense of the word), 1. 338 D. Cp. Constitution.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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