Plato, Republic 336d-337a
Nicole Kiernan /
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καὶ ἐγὼ ἀκούσας ἐξεπλάγην καὶ προσβλέπων αὐτὸν ἐφοβούμην , καί μοι δοκῶ , εἰ μὴ πρότερος ἑωράκη αὐτὸν ἢ ἐκεῖνος ἐμέ , ἄφωνος ἂν γενέσθαι . νῦν δὲ ἡνίκα ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου ἤρχετο ἐξαγριαίνεσθαι , προσέβλεψα αὐτὸν πρότερος , ὥστε αὐτῷ οἷός τ᾽ ἐγενόμην ἀποκρίνασθαι , καὶ εἶπον ὑποτρέμων : ὦ Θρασύμαχε , μὴ χαλεπὸς ἡμῖν ἴσθι : εἰ γάρ τι ἐξαμαρτάνομεν ἐν τῇ τῶν λόγων σκέψει ἐγώ τε καὶ ὅδε , εὖ ἴσθι ὅτι ἄκοντες ἁμαρτάνομεν . μὴ γὰρ δὴ οἴου , εἰ μὲν χρυσίον ἐζητοῦμεν , οὐκ ἄν ποτε ἡμᾶς ἑκόντας εἶναι ὑποκατακλίνεσθαι ἀλλήλοις ἐν τῇ ζητήσει καὶ διαφθείρειν τὴν εὕρεσιν αὐτοῦ , δικαιοσύνην δὲ ζητοῦντας , πρᾶγμα πολλῶν χρυσίων τιμιώτερον , ἔπειθ᾽ οὕτως ἀνοήτως ὑπείκειν ἀλλήλοις καὶ οὐ σπουδάζειν ὅτι μάλιστα φανῆναι αὐτό . οἴου γε σύ , ὦ φίλε . ἀλλ᾽ οἶμαι οὐ δυνάμεθα : ἐλεεῖσθαι οὖν ἡμᾶς πολὺ μᾶλλον εἰκός ἐστίν που ὑπὸ ὑμῶν τῶν δεινῶν ἢ χαλεπαίνεσθαι .
And
I
,
when
I
heard
him
,
was
dismayed
,
and
looking
upon
him
was
filled
with
fear
,
and
I
believe
that
if
I
had
not
looked
at
him
before
he
did
at
me
I
should
have
lost
my
voice
.
But
as
it
is
,
at
the
very
moment
when
he
began
to
be
exasperated
by
the
course
of
the
argument
I
glanced
at
him
first
,
so
that
I
became
capable
of
answering
him
and
said
with
a
light
tremor
:
"
Thrasymachus
,
don
'
t
be
harsh
with
us
.
If
I
and
my
friend
have
made
mistakes
in
the
consideration
of
the
question
,
rest
assured
that
it
is
unwillingly
that
we
err
.
For
you
surely
must
not
suppose
that
while
if
our
quest
were
for
gold
we
would
never
willingly
truckle
to
one
another
and
make
concessions
in
the
search
and
so
spoil
our
chances
of
finding
it
,
yet
that
when
we
are
searching
for
justice
,
a
thing
more
precious
than
much
fine
gold
,
we
should
then
be
so
foolish
as
to
give
way
to
one
another
and
not
rather
do
our
serious
best
to
have
it
discovered
.
You
surely
must
not
suppose
that
,
my
friend
.
But
you
see
it
is
our
lack
of
ability
that
is
at
fault
.
It
is
pity
then
that
we
should
far
more
reasonably
receive
from
clever
fellows
like
you
than
severity
.
"