ABSTRACT

For Plato’s views, in the Laws , on political justice and equality , see especially the passage on the two kinds of equality ( Laws 757b-d) quoted below under

(1). For the fact, mentioned in Plato’s text, that not only virtue and breeding but also wealth should count in the distribution of honours and of spoils (and even size and good looks), see Laws 744c, quoted in note 20 (1) to Chapter 6 of O.S. , where other relevant passages are also discussed.