YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.
STRANGER: And do not these three expand in a STRANGER: Democracy alone, whether rigidly manner into five, producing out of themselves two observing the laws or not, and whether the multi-other names?
tude rule over the men of property with their consent or against their consent, always in ordinary YOUNG SOCRATES: What are they?
language has the same name.
YOUNG SOCRATES: What are they?
YOUNG SOCRATES: True.
STRANGER: There is a criterion of voluntary and STRANGER: But do you suppose that any form of involuntary, poverty and riches, law and the absence government which is defined by these characteris-of law, which men now-a-days apply to them; the tics of the one, the few, or the many, of poverty or two first they subdivide accordingly, and ascribe to wealth, of voluntary or compulsory submission, of monarchy two forms and two corresponding names, written law or the absence of law, can be a right royalty and tyranny.
one?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Why not?
STRANGER: And the government of the few they STRANGER: Reflect; and follow me.
distinguish by the names of aristocracy and oligarchy.