Opening Republic — Plato in Plato Scroll…
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Plato · David Horan
I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon, the son of Ariston, to offer my prayers to the goddess, and also because I wanted to see how they would conduct the festival, since they were celebrating it for the first time. Now, although I thought the procession of the local people was beautiful indeed, the one that the Thracians put on seemed to suit the occasion just as well. Having offered our prayers and seen what we had come to see, we departed for the city. Then, as we were heading homewards, Polemarchus, the son of Cephalus, ordered his slave to run after us and order us to wait, and once the slave had caught hold of my cloak from behind, he said, “Polemarchus is ordering you to wait.” So I turned around and asked where the man himself was. “He is coming up behind me,” he replied. “Just wait.” “Wait we will,” said Glaucon. And a little later Polemarchus arrived, with …
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