The Republic · ¶4857
Comedy, cannot be allowed in the state, 3. 394 [cp. Laws 7. 816 D]; accustoms the mind to vulgarity, 10. 606; —same actors cannot act both tragedy and comedy, 3. 395.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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