"Yes." "Such men," said I, "will be avid of wealth, like those in an oligarchy, and will cherish a fierce secret lust for gold*This was said to be characteristic of Sparta. Cf. Newman on Aristot. Pol. 1270 a 13, Xen. Rep. Lac. 14, 203 and 7. 6, and the Chicago Dissertation of P. H. Epps, The Place of Sparta in Greek History and Civilization, pp. 180-184. and silver, owning storehouses*Cf. 416 D. and private treasuries where they may hide them away, and also the enclosures*Cf. Laws 681 A, Theaet. 174 E. of their homes, literal private love-nests* νεοττιάς suggests Horace’s tu nidum servas (Epist. i. 10.6). Cf also Laws 776 A. in which they can lavish their wealth on their women*Cf. Laws 806 A-C, 637 B-C, Aristot. Pol. 1269 b 3, and Newman ii. p. 318 on the Spartan women. Cf. Epps, op. cit. pp. 322-346. and any others they please with great expenditure." "Most true," he said. "And will they not be stingy about money, since they prize it and are not allowed to possess it openly, prodigal of others’ wealth* φιλαναλωταί, though different, suggests Sallust’s alieni appetens sui profusus (Cat. 5). Cf. Cat. 52 publice egestatem, privatim opulentiam. because of their appetites, enjoying*Cf. 587 A, Laws 636 D, Symp. 187 E, Phaedr. 251 E. their pleasures stealthily, and running away from the law as boys from a father,*Cf. Aristot. Pol. 1270 b 34 with Newman’s note; and Euthyphro 2 C "tell his mother the state." since they have not been educated by persuasion*Cf. Laws 720 D-E. This is not inconsistent with Polit. 293 A, where the context and the point of view are different. but by force because of their neglect of the true Muse, the companion of discussion and philosophy, and because of their preference of gymnastics to music?" "You perfectly describe," he said, "a polity that is a mixture*This is of course not the mixed government which Plato approves Laws 691-692, 712 D-E, 759 B. Cf. What Plato Said, p. 629. of good and evil." "Why, yes, the elements have been mixed," I said, "but the most conspicuous*For διαφανέστατον cf. 544 D. The expression διαφανέστατον . . . ἕν τι μόνον, misunderstood and emended by Apelt, is colored by an idea of Anaxagoras expressed by Lucretius i. 877-878: illud Apparere unum cuius sint plurima mixta. Anaxag. Fr. 12. Diels 1.3, p. 405 ἀλλ’ ὅτων πλεῖστα ἔνι, ταῦτα ἐνδηλότατα ἓν ἕκαστον ἐστι καὶ ἦν. Cf. Phaedr. 238 A, Cratyl. 393 misunderstood by Dümmler and emended (ἐναργής for ἐγκρατής) with the approval of Wilamowitz, Platon, ii. p. 350. feature in it is one thing only, due to the predominance of the high-spirited element, namely contentiousness and covetousness of honor.*There is no contradiction between this and Laws 870 C if the passage is read carefully." "Very much so," said he. "Such, then, would be the origin and nature of this polity if we may merely outline the figure of a constitution in words and not elaborate it precisely, since even the sketch will suffice to show us the most just and the most unjust type of man, and it would be an impracticable task to set forth all forms*Cf. on 544 D, p. 240, note a. of government without omitting any, and all customs and qualities of men." "Quite right," he said.
"What, then, is the man that corresponds to this constitution? What is his origin and what his nature?" "I fancy," Adeimantus said, "that he comes rather close*Cf. Phaedo 65 A, Porphyry, De abst. i. 27, Teubner, p. 59 ἐγγὺς τείνειν ἀποσιτίας. to Glaucon here in point of contentiousness." "Perhaps," said I, "in that, but I do not think their natures are alike in the following respects." "In what?"