Motif
decline of a city through misregulated birth
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A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Civic Order and the Body Politic. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Republic BOOK V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII.; lines 20387-20491 confidence: high
The Muses say a well-constituted city can hardly be shaken, but whatever has a beginning has an end, so even this constitution will eventually dissolve.
The city dissolves because rulers fail to know the proper law or number of births and arrange unions out of season, producing unworthy successors.
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