Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Republic of Plato: Books I.-V
In the case of the Republic, a solitary edition by 5 Bachelor of Arts of Trinity College, Cambridge, Edmund Massey, in 1713, interrupts this long neglect Unfortunately its date is its only interest. It is a pity that a far more competent and famous Cantabrigian did not undertake the task in which Massey failed. The poet Gray, equally at home in art and philosophy.
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