[430a]
and
exercises of the body. The sole aim of our contrivance was that they should
be convinced and receive our laws like a dye as it were, so that their
belief and faith might be1 fast-colored both about the
things that are to be feared and all other things because of the fitness of
their nature and nurture, and that so their dyes might not be washed out by
those lyes that have such dread2 power to scour
our faiths away, pleasure more potent than any detergent or abstergent
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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