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[124e]

Socrates
That is correct. But try to answer me in that way regarding those others—Hippias and Periander: what appellation is given them on account of their government?

Theages
Despots, I suppose; it must be that.

Socrates
And when a man desires to govern the whole of the people in his city, he desires the same government as those did—despotism, and to be a despot?

Theages
Apparently.

Socrates
And it is this that you say you desire?

Theages
It seems so, from what I have said.


Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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