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The hit about the tyrant being a parricide; the representation of

the tyrant's life as an obscene dream; the rhetorical surprise of

a more miserable than the most miserable of men in Book IX; the

hint to the poets that if they are the friends of tyrants there

is no place for them in a constitutional State, and that they are

too clever not to see the propriety of their own expulsion; the

continuous image of the drones who are of two kinds, swelling at

last into the monster drone having wings (Book IX),-are among

Plato's happiest touches.