{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0059.tlg030.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg030.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg030.local001","title":"Πολιτεία","titleGreek":"Πολιτεία","alternateTitles":["Republic","République","Republique","Politeia","Πολιτεία"],"author":"Plato","authorityName":"PLATO Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0059-plato/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0059-plato/","editors":["John Burnet"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Platonis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1905","volume":"4","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/operarecognovitb04platuoft/page/9/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plato. Πολιτεία. ed. John Burnet. Platonis Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1905. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg030.local001","excerpt":"κατέβην χθὲς εἰς Πειραιᾶ μετὰ Γλαύκωνος τοῦ Ἀρίστωνος προσευξόμενός τε τῇ θεῷ καὶ ἅμα τὴν ἑορτὴν βουλόμενος θεάσασθαι τίνα τρόπον ποιήσουσιν ἅτε νῦν πρῶτον ἄγοντες. καλὴ μὲν οὖν μοι καὶ ἡ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων πομπὴ ἔδοξεν εἶναι, οὐ μέντοι ἧττον ἐφαίνετο πρέπειν ἣν οἱ Θρᾷκες ἔπεμπον. προσευξάμενοι δὲ καὶ θεωρήσαντες ἀπῇμεν πρὸς τὸ ἄστυ. κατιδὼν οὖν πόρρωθεν ἡμᾶς οἴκαδε ὡρμημένους Πολέμαρχος ὁ Κεφάλου ἐκέλευσε δραμόντα τὸν παῖδα περιμεῖναί ἑ κελεῦσαι. καί μου ὄπισθεν ὁ παῖς λαβόμενος τοῦ ἱματίου, κελεύει ὑμᾶς, ἔφη, Πολέμαρχος περιμεῖναι. καὶ ἐγὼ μετεστράφην τε καὶ ἠρόμην ὅπου αὐτὸς εἴη. οὗτος, ἔφη, ὄπισθεν προσέρχεται· ἀλλὰ περιμένετε. ἀλλὰ περιμενοῦμεν, ἦ δʼ ὃς ὁ Γλαύκων. καὶ ὀλίγῳ ὕστερον ὅ τε Πολέμαρχος ἧκε καὶ Ἀδείμαντος ὁ τοῦ Γλαύκωνος ἀδελφὸς καὶ Νικήρατος ὁ Νικίου καὶ ἄλλοι τινὲς ὡς ἀπὸ τῆς πομπῆς. ὁ οὖν Πολέμαρχος ἔφη· ὦ Σώκρατες, δοκεῖτέ μοι πρὸς ἄστυ ὡρμῆσθαι ὡς ἀπιόντες. οὐ γὰρ κακῶς…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg030.local001/1-book-1/"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg030.local001/2-book-2/"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg030.local001/3-book-3/"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg030.local001/4-book-4/"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg030.local001/5-book-5/"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg030.local001/6-book-6/"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg030.local001/7-book-7/"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg030.local001/8-book-8/"},{"label":"Book 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg030.local001/9-book-9/"},{"label":"Book 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg030.local001/10-book-10/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg030.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0059.tlg030.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059/tlg030/local001.json.gz"}}