So, if they should wish to make a private trip away from home, it won't even be possible for them, or give gifts to lady companions, or make expenditures wherever else they happen to wish, such as those made by the men reputed to be happy. BOOK IV And Adeimantus interrupted and said, "What would your 419 a apologyi be, Socrates, if someone were to say that you're hardly mak- ing these men happy, and further, that it's their own fault - they to whom the city in truth belongs but who enjoy nothing good from the city as do others, who possess lands, and build fine big houses, and possess all the accessories that go along with these things, and make private sacrifices to gods, and entertain foreigners, and, of course, also acquire what you were just talking about, gold and silver and all that's conventionally held to belong to men who are going to be blessed? But, he would say, they look exactly like mercenary auxiliaries who sit in the city and do nothing but keep watch." 420 a "Yes," I said, "and besides they do it for food alone they get no wages beyond the food, as do the rest.
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