Saturday, October 02, 2004
Euripides in Praise of the Middle Class
Euripides, Suppliants 238-245 (tr. E.P. Coleridge):
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For there are three ranks of citizens; the rich, a useless set, that ever crave for more; the poor and destitute, fearful folk, that cherish envy more than is right, and shoot out grievous stings against the men who have aught, beguiled as they are by the eloquence of vicious leaders; while the class that is midmost of the three preserveth cities, observing such order as the state ordains.Some modern editors follow Wecklein in regarding these lines as an interpolation.
