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undergo a scrutiny, and lead the choruses for a year according to law. And in
like manner the competitor who wins the lot shall be leader of the solo and
concert music for that year; and he who is thus elected shall deliver the award
to the judges. In the next place, we have to choose judges in the contests of
horses and of men; these shall be selected from the third and also from the
second class of citizens, and three first classes shall be compelled to go to the
election, but the lowest may stay away with impunity; and let there be three
elected by lot out of the twenty who have been chosen previously, and they
must also have the vote and approval of the examiners. But if any one is
rejected in the scrutiny at any ballot or decision, others shall be chosen in the
same manner, and undergo a similar scrutiny.
There remains the minister of the education of youth, male and female; he
too will rule according to law; one such minister will be sufficient, and he
must be fifty years old, and have children lawfully begotten, both boys and
girls by preference, at any rate, one or the other. He who is elected, and he
who is the elector, should consider that of all the great offices of state, this is
the greatest; for the first shoot of any plant, if it makes a good start towards
the attainment of its natural excellence, has the greatest effect on its maturity;
and this is not only true of plants, but of animals wild and tame, and also of
men. Man, as we say, is a tame or civilized animal; nevertheless, he requires
proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes
the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill educated
he is the most savage of earthly creatures. Wherefore the legislator ought not
to allow the education of children to become a secondary or accidental matter.
In the first place, he who would be rightly provident about them, should begin
by taking care that he is elected, who of all the citizens is in every way best;
him the legislator shall do his utmost to appoint guardian and superintendent.
To this end all the magistrates, with the exception of the council and prytanes,
shall go to the temple of Apollo, and elect by ballot him of the guardians of
the law whom they severally think will be the best superintendent of
education. And he who has the greatest number of votes, after he has
undergone a scrutiny at the hands of all the magistrates who have been his
electors, with the exception of the guardians of the law—shall hold office for
five years; and in the sixth year let another be chosen in like manner to fill his
office.
If any one dies while he is holding a public office, and more than thirty
days before his term of office expires, let those whose business it is elect
another to the office in the same manner as before. And if any one who is
entrusted with orphans dies, let the relations both on the father’s and mother’s
side, who are residing at home, including cousins, appoint another guardian
within ten days, or be fined a drachma a day for neglect to do so.
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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