The Republic · ¶5303

Proverbs: ‘birds of a feather,’ 1. 329 A; ‘shave a lion,’ ib. 341 C; ‘let brother help brother,’ 2. 362 D; ‘wolf and flock,’ 3. 415 D; ‘one great thing,’4. 423 E; ‘hard is the good,’ ib. 435 C; ‘friends have all things in common,’ 5. 449 C; ‘the useful is the noble,’ ib. 457 B; ‘the wise must go to the doors of the rich,’ 6. 489 B (cp. 2. 364 B); ‘what is more than human,’ 6. 492 E; ‘the necessity of Diomede,’ ib. 493 D; ‘the she-dog as good as her mistress,’ 8. 563 D; ‘out of the smoke into the fire,’ ib. 569 B; ‘does not come within a thousand miles’ (οὐδ’ ἴκταρ βάλλει), 9. 575 D.

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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