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İngilizce Yunanca

267 Str. Now let us go back to the beginning and join together the definition of the name of the statesman’s art link by link to the end.

267 Y. Soc. By all means.

267 Str. In the first place we said that intellectual science had a part that gives commands; and a portion of this was called by a comparison the part that gives its own commands; and again the art of rearing living beings was singled out, which is by no means the smallest part of the art which gives its own commands; and a class of rearing living beings was herd-tending, and a part of this again the herding of walking animals; and from the herding of walking animals the art of rearing those without horns was divided. And of this in turn one part will have to be treated as no less than threefold, if it is to be called by one comprehensive name, and it will be called (1) the science (2) of tending herds (3) which do not cross breeds. But the only possible further subdivision of this is the art of herding human beings, and this is at last what we are looking for, the single art called both kingly and statesmanlike.

267 Y. Soc. That is perfectly true.

267 Str. And yet, Socrates, have we truly accomplished this, exactly as you have said?

267 Y. Soc. Accomplished what?

267 Str. The perfectly satisfactory discussion of our subject. Or is our investigation incomplete in just this detail, that we have given a definition after a fashion, but have not perfectly completed it?

267 Y. Soc. What do you mean?

267 Str. I will try to make still plainer to us both the thought which I now have in mind.

267 Y. Soc. Please do so.

267 Str. We found just now that there were many arts of herding, and one of them was the art of statesmanship, which was the care of one particular kind of herd, did we not?

267 Y. Soc. Yes.

267 Str. And our argument defined this, not as the tending of horses or other beasts, but as the science of tending men in common.

267 Y. Soc. Yes, it did.

267 Str. Let us, then, observe the point of difference between kings and all other herdsmen.

267 Y. Soc. What point of difference?

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