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'And a true answer, of course:-but what more have they to say?'

They say that the two races, the iron and brass, and the silver

and gold, will draw the State different ways;-the one will take

to trade and moneymaking, and the others, having the true riches

and not caring for money, will resist them: the contest will end

in a compromise; they will agree to have private property, and

will enslave their fellow-citizens who were once their friends

and nurturers. But they will retain their warlike character, and

will be chiefly occupied in fighting and exercising rule. Thus

arises timocracy, which is intermediate between aristocracy and

oligarchy.