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in a family, loves and is beloved; even if there come a time later when the tie
is broken, still, while he is in want of education, he naturally loves his parents
and is beloved by them, and flies to his relatives for protection, and finds in
them his only natural allies in time of need; and this parental feeling already
exists in the Cnosians, as is shown by their care of the new city; and there is a
similar feeling on the part of the young city towards Cnosus. And I repeat
what I was saying—for there is no harm in repeating a good thing—that the
Cnosians should take a common interest in all these matters, and choose, as
far as they can, the eldest and best of the colonists, to the number of not less
than a hundred; and let there be another hundred of the Cnosians themselves.
These, I say, on their arrival, should have a joint care that the magistrates
should be appointed according to law, and that when they are appointed they
should undergo a scrutiny. When this has been effected, the Cnosians shall
return home, and the new city do the best she can for her own preservation
and happiness. I would have the seven–and–thirty now, and in all future time,
chosen to fulfil the following duties:—Let them, in the first place, be the
guardians of the law; and, secondly, of the registers in which each one
registers before the magistrate the amount of his property, excepting four
minae which are allowed to citizens of the first class, three allowed to the
second, two to the third, and a single mina to the fourth. And if any one,
despising the laws for the sake of gain, be found to possess anything more
which has not been registered, let all that he has in excess be confiscated, and
let him be liable to a suit which shall be the reverse of honourable or
fortunate. And let any one who will, indict him on the charge of loving base
gains, and proceed against him before the guardians of the law. And if he be
cast, let him lose his share of the public possessions, and when there is any
public distribution, let him have nothing but his original lot; and let him be
written down a condemned man as long as he lives, in some place in which
any one who pleases can read about his onces. The guardian of the law shall
not hold office longer than twenty years, and shall not be less than fifty years
of age when he is elected; or if he is elected when he is sixty years of age, he
shall hold office for ten years only; and upon the same principle, he must not
imagine that he will be permitted to hold such an important office as that of
guardian of the laws after he is seventy years of age, if he live so long.
These are the three first ordinances about the guardians of the law; as the
work of legislation progresses, each law in turn will assign to them their
further duties. And now we may proceed in order to speak of the election of
other officers; for generals have to be elected, and these again must have their
ministers, commanders, and colonels of horse, and commanders of brigades
of foot, who would be more rightly called by their popular name of brigadiers.
The guardians of the law shall propose as generals men who are natives of the
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The Complete Plato
- Titel
- The Complete Plato
- Autor
- Plato
- Datum
- ~347 B.C.
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- PD
- Abmessungen
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Seiten
- 1612
- Schlagwörter
- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
- Kategorien
- Geisteswissenschaften
- International