The Republic · ¶5385

Spirit, must be combined with gentleness in the guardians, 2. 375; 3. 410; 6. 503 [cp. Laws 5. 731 B]; characteristic of northern nations, 4. 435 E; found in quite young children, ib. 441 A [cp. Laws; 12. 963]: —the spirited (or passionate) element in the soul, ib. 440 foll.; 6. 504 A; 8. 550 A; 9. 572 A, 580 E; must be subject to the rational part, 4. 441 E [cp. Tim. 30 C, 70, 89 D]; predominant in the timocratic state and man, 8. 548, 550 B; characterised by ambition, 9. 581 B; its pleasures, ib. 586 D; the favourite object of the poet’s imitation, 10. 604, 605.

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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