Political fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and other ancient Pythagoreans, preserved by Stobaeus; and also, ethical fragments of Hierocles ... preserved by the same author / Translated from the Greek. By Thomas Taylor.
- Thomas Taylor
- Date:
- 1822
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Political fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and other ancient Pythagoreans, preserved by Stobaeus; and also, ethical fragments of Hierocles ... preserved by the same author / Translated from the Greek. By Thomas Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![32 wants of others, and afford them assistance in common. For they are perfect in virtue. But the friendship which is in a city, and which possesses a certain common end, imitates the concord of the universe. But without the arrangement of magistrates no city can be inhabited. In order, however, to effect this arrangement, and to preserve the city, laws are necessary, and a certain political domina¬ tion, and also a governor and the governed. But the consequence of these things is, the general good, a certain concinnity, and the consent of the multitude in conjunction with concordant persuasion. He, likewise, who governs according to virtue, is called a king, and is so [in reality]; since he possesses the same friendship and communion with his sub¬ jects as divinity possesses with the world, and the natures which it contains. All benevo¬ lence, however, ought to be exerted; in the first place, indeed, by the king towards his subjects; but in the second place, by the sub¬ jects towards the king: and this benevolence should be such as that of a parent towards his child, of a shepherd towards his flock, and of law towards him who uses it. For there is one virtue pertaining to the government, and to the life of men. But no one should through indigence solicit the as-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29349187_0134.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
