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viii PUPACE How so In this way. When a potter grows rich, will he go on with his trade Does he not become idle and careless, and consequently a worse potter And equally, if he is too poor to provide himself with tools and other things he needs for his craft, his w<strong>OF</strong>k will be worse, and he will not make such good craftsmen of his sons and apprentices. So work and workmen suffer from both causes, poverty and riches as well.' Here there are 117 words for 121 in the Greek. Davies and Vaughan require 155,1 as follows: I wonder whether you will think the proposition that is sister to the last satisfactory also. What may that be 2 Consider whether the other craftsmen are similarly injured and spoiled by these agencies. What agencies do you mean 2 Wealth, I said, and poverty. How so Thus: Do you think that a potter after he has grown rich will care to attend to his trade any longer Certainly not. But he will become more idle and careless than he was before a Yes, much more. Then does he not become a worse potter Yel, a much worse potter too. On the other hand, if he is prevented by poverty from providing himself with tools or any other requisite of his trade, he will produce inferior articles and his sons and apprentices will not be taught their trade so well. Inevitably. Then both these conditions, riches and poverty, deteriorate the productions of the artisans, and the artisans themselves. If the reader finds this version easier to follow and feels himself defrauded by the omission of the words in italics, let him betake 1 Jowett uses 150 words; Dr. Lindsay, 151; Shorey (Loeb edition), 157. 2 It is a very frequent idiom in Greek dialogue, to ask a man what he is going to say before he has had time to say it. The effect is unnatural iIi English and sometimes ludicrous. a Unlike the English here, the Greek does not suggest that the potter was idle and careless before he became rich.
PREFACE himself to Davies and Vaughan. 4 Their scholarship was considerably more exact than Jowett's. Henry Jackson told me that once~ when a passage from the Republic was set in the Fellowship Examination at Trinity College, Cambridge, he had marked the versions of Jowett and of Davies and Vaughan by the same standard as those of the candidates. The two former Fellows of Trinity came out at the top, the late Master of Balliol at the bottom. It must be remembered, however, that Jackson himself was a Fellow of Trinity. In quality, Plato's style rises and sinks with his theme, ranging from the tone of ordinary conversation to an almost lyrical eloquence. I have tried to reflect these modulations, while keeping to a language with some claim to be normal English, not too obviously of any particular date, and such as a cultivated person may read without discomfort. The translation has been made from Burnet's text. It seemed unnecessary to give reasons for departing, here and there, from his readings or punctuation. The Introduction tells the story of Plato's life, so far as possible in his own words, down to the time when he wrote the Republic. Here, as elsewhere, I have held it to be the translator's business to let the author speak for himself and to put the reader in a position to exercise his own judgeIIlent according to the light that is in him. F.M.C. IX 4 Or, better, to Dr. Lindsay (Everyman's Library), who follows the text as closdy and writes in a simpler style.
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