§1.632ΑΘ.
ἐν πάσαις ταῖς τούτων ὁμιλίαις τάς τε λύπας αὐτῶν καὶ τὰς ἡδονὰς καὶ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας συμπάντων τε ἐρώτων τὰς σπουδὰς ἐπεσκεμμένον καὶ παραπεφυλαχότα, ψέγειν τε ὀρθῶς καὶ ἐπαινεῖν διʼ αὐτῶν τῶν νόμων·
Athenian:...in all their associations, having investigated and guarded against their pains and pleasures and desires and the earnest pursuits of all loves, to blame and praise them correctly through the laws themselves.
ἐν ὀργαῖς τε αὖ καὶ ἐν φόβοις, ὅσαι τε διὰ δυστυχίαν ταραχαὶ ταῖς ψυχαῖς γίγνονται καὶ ὅσαι ἐν εὐτυχίαις τῶν τοιούτων ἀποφυγαί, ὅσα τε κατὰ νόσους ἢ κατὰ πολέμους ἢ πενίας ἢ τὰ τούτοις ἐναντία γιγνόμενα προσπίπτει τοῖς ἀνθρώποις παθήματα, ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς τοιούτοις τῆς ἑκάστων διαθέσεως διδακτέον καὶ ὁριστέον τό τε καλὸν καὶ μή.
Moreover, in angers and in fears, and in all the disturbances that arise in souls through misfortune, and in all the escapes from such things in good fortune, and whatever sufferings befall men in diseases or in wars or in poverty or in their opposites—in all such circumstances, one must teach and define what is beautiful and what is not in the disposition of each.
μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἀνάγκη τὸν νομοθέτην τὰς κτήσεις τῶν πολιτῶν καὶ τὰ ἀναλώματα φυλάττειν ὅντινʼ ἂν γίγνηται τρόπον, καὶ τὰς πρὸς ἀλλήλους πᾶσιν τούτοις κοινωνίας καὶ διαλύσεις ἑκοῦσίν τε καὶ ἄκουσιν καθʼ ὁποῖον ἂν ἕκαστον πράττωσιν τῶν τοιούτων πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἐπισκοπεῖν, τό τε δίκαιον καὶ μὴ ἐν οἷς ἔστιν τε καὶ ἐν οἷς ἐλλείπει, καὶ τοῖς μὲν εὐπειθέσιν τῶν νόμων τιμὰς ἀπονέμειν, τοῖς δὲ δυσπειθέσι δίκας τακτὰς ἐπιτιθέναι, μέχριπερ ἂν πρὸς τέλος ἁπάσης πολιτείας ἐπεξελθών, ἴδῃ τῶν τελευτησάντων τίνα δεῖ τρόπον ἑκάστοις γίγνεσθαι τὰς ταφὰς καὶ τιμὰς ἅστινας αὐτοῖς ἀπονέμειν δεῖ·
And after these things, it is necessary for the lawgiver to guard the acquisitions and expenses of the citizens in whatever way they occur, and to oversee their associations and dissolutions with one another in all these things, both voluntary and involuntary, in whatever way they perform each of such things toward one another, seeing where justice is present and where it is lacking, and to distribute honors to those who are obedient to the laws, and to impose set penalties on the disobedient, until, having gone through to the end of the entire constitution, he sees in what manner the burials of the deceased ought to take place for each, and what honors ought to be distributed to them.
κατιδὼν δὲ ὁ θεὶς τοὺς νόμους ἅπασιν τούτοις φύλακας ἐπιστήσει, τοὺς μὲν διὰ φρονήσεως, τοὺς δὲ διʼ ἀληθοῦς δόξης ἰόντας, ὅπως πάντα ταῦτα συνδήσας ὁ νοῦς ἑπόμενα σωφροσύνῃ καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ ἀποφήνῃ, ἀλλὰ μὴ πλούτῳ μηδὲ φιλοτιμίᾳ.
And having observed all this, the one who established the laws will appoint guardians over all these things, some proceeding by wisdom, others by true opinion, so that intellect, binding all these things together, may show them to follow temperance and justice, and not wealth or ambition.
οὕτως, ὦ ξένοι, ἔγωγε ἤθελον ἂν ὑμᾶς καὶ ἔτι νῦν βούλομαι διεξελθεῖν πῶς ἐν τοῖς τοῦ Διὸς λεγομένοις νόμοις τοῖς τε τοῦ Πυθίου Ἀπόλλωνος, οὓς Μίνως τε καὶ Λυκοῦργος ἐθέτην, ἔνεστίν τε πάντα ταῦτα, καὶ ὅπῃ τάξιν τινὰ εἰληφότα διάδηλά ἐστιν τῷ περὶ νόμων ἐμπείρῳ τέχνῃ εἴτε καί τισιν ἔθεσιν, τοῖς δὲ ἄλλοις ἡμῖν οὐδαμῶς ἐστι καταφανῆ.
In this way, O strangers, I would have wished you then, and even now still wish you, to go through how in the laws called those of Zeus and those of Pythian Apollo, which Minos and Lycurgus established, all these things are present, and in what way, having taken a certain order, they are clear to the one experienced in laws by art or indeed by certain customs, though to the rest of us they are in no way apparent.
ΚΛ. πῶς οὖν, ὦ ξένε, λέγειν χρὴ τὰ μετὰ ταῦτα;
Cleinias: How then, O stranger, ought we to speak of what comes next?
ΑΘ. ἐξ ἀρχῆς πάλιν ἔμοιγε δοκεῖ χρῆναι διεξελθεῖν, καθάπερ ἠρξάμεθα, τὰ τῆς ἀνδρείας πρῶτον ἐπιτηδεύματα, ἔπειτα ἕτερον καὶ αὖθις ἕτερον εἶδος τῆς ἀρετῆς διέξιμεν, ἐὰν βούλησθε·
Athenian: It seems to me that we ought to go through them again from the beginning, just as we started: first the practices of courage, and then we shall go through another and again another class of virtue, if you wish.
ὅπως δʼ ἂν τὸ πρῶτον διεξέλθωμεν, πειρασώμεθα αὐτὸ παράδειγμα θέμενοι καὶ τἆλλʼ οὕτω διαμυθολογοῦντες παραμύθια ποιήσασθαι τῆς ὁδοῦ, ὕστερον δὲ ἀρετῆς πάσης ἅ γε νυνδὴ διήλθομεν ἐκεῖσε βλέποντα ἀποφανοῦμεν, ἂν θεὸς ἐθέλῃ.
And however we may go through the first, let us try, by setting it as a model and thus speaking of the rest in the manner of myth, to make them a consolation for the road, and later, if God wills, we shall show that all the things we have just now gone through look toward the whole of virtue.