The Republic · ¶5003

Government, forms of, are they administered in the interest of the rulers? 1. 338 D, 343, 346; are all based on a principle of justice, ib. 338 E [cp. Laws 12. 945]; present forms in an evil condition, 6. 492 E, 496; none of the existing forms adapted to philosophy, ib. 497; —the four imperfect forms, 4. 445 B; 8. 544 [cp. Pol. 291 foll., 301 foll.]; succession of changes in states, 8. 545 foll.; —peculiar barbarian forms, ib. 544 D. Cp. Constitution, State.

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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