Book x. (5) The companion pictures of the lover of litigation and the

valetudinarian (405), the satirical jest about the maxim of Phocylides (407), the manner in which {lvi} the image of the gold and silver citizens is taken up into the subject (416 E), and the argument from the practice of Asclepius (407), should not escape notice.

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[Sidenote: _Republic IV._ Analysis.]