Motif
Decline from ideal polity into warrior-honor type
decline_from_ideal_polity_into_warrior_honor_type
A motif of the World Ages and Cosmic Decline family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 6352-6417 confidence: medium
The ideal State is said to revert to the Spartan type in the first decline, and the individual timocrat is said to be borrowed from the Spartan citizen.
The passage says the ideal State reverts to the Spartan type in its first decline and that the individual timocrat is borrowed from the Spartan citizen.
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