Cobblers who deteriorate and are spoiled and pretend to be the workmen that they are not are no great danger to a state. But guardians of laws and of the city who are not what they pretend to be, but only seem, destroy utterly. Plato quoting Socrates. The Republic. Book 4. Section 421a.
Image; Roman funerary relief of wool merchant Titus Aelius Evangelus. (mid-2nd c. CE) Image courtesy of Professor Dolly Jørgensen.
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