The Republic · ¶5458
War, causes of, 2. 373; 4. 422 foll.; 8. 547 A; an art, 2. 374 A (cp. 4. 422, and Laws 11. 921 E); men, women, and children to go to, 5. 452 foll., 467, 471 E; 7. 537 A; regulations concerning, 5. 467–471; a matter of chance, ib. 467 E [cp. Laws 1. 638 A]; distinction between internal and external, ib. 470 A [cp. Laws 1. 628, 629]; the guilt of, always confined to a few persons, ib. 471 B; love of, especially characteristic of timocracy, 8. 547 E; cannot be easily waged by an oligarchy, ib. 551 E; the rich and the poor in war, ib. 556 C; a favourite resource of the tyrant, ib. 567 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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