{ "name": "Plato", "full_name": "Plato's Republic", "url": "https://apue.io/iiplato", "translation": "OGV", "join": " ", "translator": "zinner", "gnostic": true, "api_skip": true, "chapters": [ { "title": "Plato's Republic", "kind": "aligned", "bodies": [ { "name": "Codex VI", "body": [ "", "«48|3325/default.jpg» “Given that we have arrived at this point in the discussion, let us once more consider the first things we were told,", "and we will discover that he says, ‘Good is he who has been treated completely with injustice.", "He is rightly glorified.’", "Is not this the manner in which he was rebutted?”\n\n", "“Assuredly this is the precise manner!”\n\n", "And I said: “Now then, we have spoken concerning this because he said that he who does injustice and he who does justice each possesses a power.”\n\n", "“In what way?”\n\n", "“He said: ‘An image without likeness is the soul’s power of reason,’ in order that he who said these things will «49|3307/default.jpg» comprehend.”\n\n", "“He [said, ‘Is] it indeed [like this], or is it not? We [say that it] is for me.’\n\n", "But all of these [...] whom the rulers revealed, these now have been shown to be natural creatures, even including Chimaera and Cerberus and everything else that was mentioned.", "", "All of them descended and they disposed of their forms and images, and all of them became a single image.\n\n", "It was said: ‘Accomplish this now!’\n\n", "Assuredly a single image became the image of a multifaceted beast with many heads.", "On some days it truly resembles the image of a wild beast, and then it is possible to dispose of the first image, and all of these demanding and difficult forms emanate from there with labor, because now these are formed with hubris, and all the others as well that resemble them are now formed by the word, because now it is a single image,", "because the image of the lion is one thing, and the image of the man is another.", "«50|3357/default.jpg» The [...] is joined together forms a single [...], which [is] far more multifaceted than the first, and the second image [is] small.”\n\n", "“It has been formed.”\n\n", "“Now then, join each one of them together and make the three into a single one, so that they grow together,", "", "and so that all of them are inside a single image subsisting outside the image of the man who cannot see the things inside him, but he sees only what is outside him, and it is evident what creature his image dwells inside, and that {he:1} was formed in the image of men.", "", "And to him who claimed that there is profit for the man who does injustice, I said that he who does injustice surely does not profit, nor does he gain (anything), but this is what is profitable for him, that he throw down all images of the wicked beast, and tread on them together with the images of the lion.\n\n", "However, the man is in a state of feebleness in this respect, and everything he does is feeble.", "Consequently, he is dragged to where he passes (the) time together with them. «51|3321/default.jpg» He [fails to either reunite them with each other or to bring them] to himself. They instead [fight] anyone at enmity with [them], and with dissension they consume one another.", "He {indeed:2} said all of these things to all of those who praise perpetrating injustice.”\n\n", "“So is it not profitable for him to speak justly?”\n\n", "“And if he does these things, and speaks about them, they will get a firm grip inside the man.", "He will consequently especially strive to care for them,", "and he will nourish them like a farmer daily nourishes his produce, and the wild beasts prevent it from growing.”", "" ], "photos": "https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/api/singleitem/image/nha/", "trim": false }, { "name": "Book 9", "body": [ "«588a|8a» “Very good,” said I.\n\n", "“And now that we have come to this point in the argument, «588b|8b» let us take up again the statement with which we began and that has brought us to this pass.", "It was, I believe, averred that injustice is profitable to the completely unjust man who is reputed just.", "", "Was not that the proposition?”", "“Yes, that.”", "“Let us, then, reason with its proponent now that we have agreed on the essential nature of injustice and just conduct.”", "“How?” he said.", "“By fashioning in our discourse a symbolic image of the soul, that the maintainer of that proposition may see precisely what it is that he was saying.”", "«588c|8c» “What sort of an image?” he said.", "“One of those natures that the ancient fables tell of,” said I, “as that of the Chimaera or Scylla or Cerberus, and the numerous other examples that are told of many forms grown together in one.”\n\n", "“Yes, they do tell of them.”", "", "", "“Mould, then, a single shape of a manifold and many-headed beast that has a ring of heads of tame and wild beasts and can change them and cause to spring forth from itself all such growths.”\n\n", "«588d|8d» “It is the task of a cunning artist,” he said, “but nevertheless, since speech is more plastic than wax and other such media, assume that it has been so fashioned.”", "“Then fashion one other form of a lion and one of a man", "and let the first be far the largest and the second second in size.”\n\n", "“That is easier,” he said, “and is done.”", "“Join the three in one, then, so as in some sort to grow together.”", "“They are so united,” he said.\n\n", "“Then mould about them outside the likeness of one, that of the man, so that to anyone who is unable «588e|8e» to look within but who can see only the external sheath it appears to be one living creature, the man.”\n\n", "“The sheath is made fast about him,” he said.\n\n", "“Let us, then say to the speaker who avers that it pays this man to be unjust, and that to do justice is not for his advantage, that he is affirming nothing else than that it profits him to feast and make strong the multifarious beast and the lion and all that pertains to the lion,", "«589a|9a» but to starve the man and so enfeeble him", "that he can be pulled about whithersoever either of the others drag him, and not to familiarize or reconcile with one another the two creatures but suffer them to bite and fight and devour one another.”\n\n", "“Yes,” he said, “that is precisely what the panegyrist of injustice will be found to say.”\n\n", "“And on the other hand he who says that justice is the more profitable", "affirms that all our actions and words should tend to give the man within us", "«589b|9b» complete domination over the entire man and make him take charge of the many-headed beast", "—like a farmer who cherishes and trains the cultivated plants but checks the growth of the wild—and he will make an ally of the lion’s nature, and caring for all the beasts alike will first make them friendly to one another and to himself, and so foster their growth.”\n\n", "“Yes, that in turn is precisely the meaning of the man who commends justice.”" ], "photos": "https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0167%3Abook%3D9%3Asection%3D58", "trim": false } ], "footers": [ "“He,” or “it.”", "“Indeed,” literally, “yes.”" ] } ] }