...shall forbid them to utter these things, and command them to sing and say the opposite. I am sure that we shall, he replied. But if you admit that I am right in this, then I shall say that you have admitted the point which we have been all along trying to determine, viz. whether...

...shall forbid them to utter these things, and command them to sing and say the opposite. I am sure that we shall, he replied. But if you admit that I am right in this, then I shall say that yon have admitted the point which we have been all along trying to determine, namely, whether...

...that injustice is profitable when undetected, whereas justice is another's gain and one's own loss — these things we shall forbid them to utter, and command...if you admit that I am right in this, then I shall say that you have admitted the point which we have been all along trying to determine, viz. whether...

...injustice is profitable when undetected, : whereas justice is another's gain and one's own loss — these things we shall forbid them to utter, and command...say the opposite. To be sure we shall, he replied. .*i But if you admit that I am right in this, then I shall say that you have admitted the point which...

...not mistaken, we shall have to say that about men poets and story-tellers are guilty of making the gravest misstatements when they tell us that wicked...if you admit that I am right in this, then I shall maintain that you have implied the principle for which we have been all along contending. I grant the...

..."If I am not mistaken, we shall have to say that about men, poets and storytellers, are guilty of the gravest misstatements, when they tell us that wicked...good miserable; and that injustice is profitable when not detected, but that justice is a man's own loss, and another's gain — I imagine we shall forbid...

...about men?"* Poets and story tellers, he says, in answer to this question, " are guilty of making the gravest misstatements when they tell us that wicked...utter, and command them to sing and say the opposite. "f Here we have a most explicit statement in regard to poetic justice. Plato requires that poetry shall...

...about men?"* Poets and story tellers, he says, in answer to this question, "are guilty of making the gravest misstatements when they tell us that wicked...them to utter, and command them to sing and say the opposite."f Here we have a most explicit statement in regard to poetic justice. Plato requires that...

...critic of the arts, in his Republic when he says that poets and storytellers " are guilty of making the gravest misstatements when they tell us that wicked...utter, and command them to sing and say the opposite." And Plato in his Laws even goes so far as to foreshadow the more modern idea of poetic justice in insisting...

...amended to agree with these principles. The use is likewise to be forbidden of such language as implies that wicked men are often happy, and the good miserable...and that injustice is profitable when undetected, justice being a man's own loss and another's gain.2 Having thus discussed the matter of the narratives...