{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/plato/rep/rep0101.htm","path":"cla/plato/rep/rep0101.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/plato/rep/rep0101.htm","text":"Polemarchus said to me: I perceive, Socrates, that you and our companion are already on your way to the city.\nYou are not far wrong, I said.\nBut do you see, he rejoined, how many we are?\nOf course.\nAnd are you stronger than all these? for if not, you will have to remain where you are.\nMay there not be the alternative, I said, that we may persuade you to let us go?\nBut can you persuade us, if we refuse to listen to you? he said.\nCertainly not, replied Glaucon.\nThen we are not going to listen; of that you may be assured.\nAdeimantus added: Has no one told you of the torch-race on horseback in honour of the goddess which will take place in the evening?\nWith horses! I replied: That is a novelty. Will horsemen carry torches and pass them one to another during the race?\nYes, said Polemarchus, and not only so, but a festival will he celebrated at night, which you certainly ought to see. Let us rise soon after supper and see this festival; there will be a gathering of young men, and we will have a good talk. Stay then, and do not be perverse.\nGlaucon said: I suppose, since you insist, that we must.\nVery good, I replied.","title":"SOCRATES - POLEMARCHUS - GLAUCON - ADEIMANTUS","type":"page"}