STRANGER: And, considering how great and ter-by gifts, or fears, or pity, or by any sort of favour or rible the whole art of war is, can we imagine any enmity, into deciding the suits of men with one an-which is superior to it but the truly royal?
other contrary to the appointment of the legislator?
YOUNG SOCRATES: No other.
YOUNG SOCRATES: No; his office is such as you describe.
STRANGER: The art of the general is only ministerial, and therefore not political?
STRANGER: Then the inference is that the power of the judge is not royal, but only the power of a YOUNG SOCRATES: Exactly.
guardian of the law which ministers to the royal power?
STRANGER: Once more let us consider the nature of the righteous judge.
YOUNG SOCRATES: True.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good.
STRANGER: The review of all these sciences shows that none of them is political or royal. For the truly STRANGER: Does he do anything but decide the royal ought not itself to act, but to rule over those dealings of men with one another to be just or un-who are able to act; the king ought to know what is just in accordance with the standard which he re-and what is not a fitting opportunity for taking the ceives from the king and legislator,—showing his own initiative in matters of the greatest importance, peculiar virtue only in this, that he is not perverted whilst others should execute his orders.