The Republic · ¶4997

God, not the author of evil, 2. 364, 379, 380 A; 3. 391 E [cp. Laws 2. 672 B]; never changes, 2. 380; will not lie, ib. 382; the maker of all things, 10. 598: —Gods, the, thought to favour the unjust, 2. 362 B, 364; supposed to accept the gifts of the wicked, ib. 365 [cp. Laws 4. 716 E; 10. 905 foll.; 12. 948]; believed to take no heed of human affairs, 2. 365 [cp. Laws 10. 889 foll.; 12. 948]; human ignorance of, 2. 365 [cp. Crat 400 E; Crit. 107; Parm. 134 E]; disbelief in, 2. 365 [cp. Laws 10. 885 foll., 909; 12. 948]; stories of, not to be repeated, 2. 378 foll.; 3. 388 foll., 408 C [cp. Euthyph. 6, 8; Crit. 109 B; Laws 2. 672 B; 10. 886 C; 12. 941]; not to be represented grieving or laughing, 3. 388; —‘gods who wander about at night in the disguise of strangers,’ 2. 381 D; —the war of the gods and the giants, ib. 378 B.

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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