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Plato's thorough detestation of the tyrant-his old friend Dionysius appears in his description of the tyrant and of the tyrannical man which reminds one of the Verlohrene Hadnschrift. The tyrant has the soul of a slave and the only part of him that is free is maniacal. The men who he commands for it canot be called government are miserable enough. But there is one more miserable still the tyrant himself. He is obliged to be the lickspittle of the vilest of mankind and lives in continual terro. The son of Ariston (the best. This was the name of Plato's father so that the son is Plato himself) proclaims from having seen all sorts of men that he is the happiest man who is king over himself whether seen or unseen by men or by gods. 580BC. The soul has by us says Plato been divided into three types [foreign text] through this division was only made in a subsequently written part of the Republic so that there must have been some change of the text here in putting the whole Re-