243. +Transliteration: Poiêsei hôs egômai tên polin hêmetera chreia. E- text editor's translation: "As I see it, it will be our needs that create the city." Plato, Republic 369c. 244. +Transliteration: hoi dêmiourgoi. Liddell and Scott definition of dêmiourgos: "workman." 245. +Transliteration: eis hen kata physin. E-text editor's translation: "to one activity in accordance with [a given person's] nature." Plato, Republic 372e.. 246. +Transliteration: polis êdê tryphôsa. E-text editor's translation: "a city already [grown] luxurious." The verb tryphaô means "to live softly or delicately, fare sumptuously, live in luxury." (Liddell and Scott.) Plato, Republic 372e. 246. +Transliteration: polis êdê tryphôsa. E-text editor's translation: "a city already [grown] luxurious." The verb tryphaô means "to live softly or delicately, fare sumptuously, live in luxury." (Liddell and Scott.) Plato, Republic 372e. 246. +Transliteration: kai hê chôra pou hê tote hikanê smikra ex hikanês estai. E-text editor's translation: "And the land that used to be sufficient will be insufficient." Plato, Republic 373d. 246. +Transliteration: oukoun tês tôn plêsion chôras hêmin apotmêteon. E-text editor's translation: "And so we will appropriate for ourselves some of our neighbor's land." Plato, Republic 373d. 247. +Transliteration: Phylakes . . . epikouroi. Pater's translation: "watchmen or auxiliaries." 247. +Transliteration: hôs en pharmakou eidei ta pseudê ta en deonti genomena. E-text editor's translation: "timely falsehoods that take the form of medicine." Plato, Republic 389b and 414b contain parts of the quotation. 247. +Transliteration: phoinikikon pseudos. E-text editor's translation: "Phoenician story." Plato, Republic 414c. 251. +Transliteration: nomisma tês allagês heneka. E-text editor's translation: "a common currency for exchange." Plato, Republic 371b. 254. +Transliteration: oikeiopragia. E-text editor's translation: "functioning," from oikeios (proper to a thing, fitting) and pragos or, in everyday non-poetic speech, pragma(deed). Plato, Republic 434c. 255. +Transliteration: dêmos. Liddell and Scott definition: "the commons, common people, plebeians; in Attica, townships or hundreds." 255. +Transliteration: ta tôn philôn koina. E-text editor's translation: "the possessions of friends are held in common." Plato, Phaedrus 279c contains similar language. 257. +Transliteration: archontes. Liddell and Scott definition of archon: "ruler." 257. +Transliteration: philopolides. Liddell and Scott definition: "[those] loving [their] city, state, or country." 258. +Transliteration: Ta tôn philôn koina. E-text editor's translation: "the possessions of friends are held in common." Plato, Phaedrus 279c contains similar language. 260. +Transliteration: kalokagathos. Liddell and Scott definition: "beautiful and good, noble and good."