A conversation that starts by asking what justice is, decides the question is easier to see in a city than in a man, and builds the city in order to look at it. The cave, the philosopher-kings and the banishment of the poets are all on the way to an answer about one soul.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Republic that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: Benjamin Jowett, 1871. Source: Gutenberg 1497.
The text here is Benjamin Jowett’s translation, Oxford, 1871, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 1497, set unaltered. Jowett’s long introduction and analysis are his and are not printed here.
Set as ten books, which is how it has been divided since antiquity; the Stephanus numbers scholars cite are not in this edition.
Public domain, and free to read, copy and quote. Nothing on this page is written by anyone living: the words are the translator’s and the counts are the text’s.