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The Republic · ¶5476

World below, the, seems very near to the aged, 1. 330 E; not to be reviled, 3. 386 foll. [cp. Crat. 403; Laws 5. 727 E; 8. 828 D]; pleasure of discourse in, 6. 498 D [cp. Apol. 41]; punishment of the wicked in, 2. 363; 10. 614 foll.; sex in, 10. 618 B; —[heroes] who have ascended from the world below to the gods, 7. 521 C.
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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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