Literary Record Details

Author: PLATO Phil.

Opus: Respublica
Reference: Plat.Rep.5.460a

Period: Classical

Genre: prose
Subgenre: philosophy
Object:
Gender: m
Context: land

Greek Text: κλῆροι δή τινες οἶμαι ποιητέοι κομψοί, ὥστε τὸν φαῦλον ἐκεῖνον αἰτιᾶσθαι ἐφ᾽ ἑκάστης συνέρξεως τύχην ἀλλὰ μὴ τοὺς ἄρχοντας.

English Text: Certain ingenious lots, then, I suppose, must be devised so that the inferior man at each conjugation may blame chance and not the rulers

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Kleros 808, Plat.Rep.5.460a
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