The Republic · ¶4877

Courage, required in the guardians, 2. 375; 3. 386, 413 E, 416 E; 4. 429; 6. 503 E; inconsistent with the fear of death, 3. 386; 6. 486 A; = the preservation of a right opinion about objects of fear, 4. 429, 442 B (cp. 2. 376, and Laches 193, 195); distinguished from fearlessness, 4. 430 B; one of the philosopher’s virtues, 6. 486 A, 490 E, 494 A: —the courageous temper averse to intellectual toil, ib. 503 D [cp. Pol. 306, 307].

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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