The Republic · ¶4797
Athlete, Atalanta chooses the soul of an, 10. 620 B; athletes, obliged to pay excessive attention to diet, 3. 404 A; sleep away their lives, ibid.; are apt to become brutalized, ib. 410, 411 (cp. 7. 535 D); —the guardians athletes of war, 3. 403 E, 404 B; 4. 422; 7. 521 E; 8. 543 [cp. Laws 8. 830].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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