The Republic · ¶5223
Old age, complaints against, 1. 329; Sophocles quoted in regard to, ibid.; wealth a comforter of age, ibid.; —old men think more of the future life, ib. 330; not students, 7. 536 [cp. Laches 189]; —the older to bear rule in the state, 3. 412 [cp. Laws 3. 690 A; 4. 714 E]; to be over the younger, 5. 465 A [cp. Laws 4. 721 D; 9. 879 C; 11. 917 A].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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