YOUNG SOCRATES: Of course.

STRANGER: Is not the third form of government the rule of the multitude,

which is called by the name of democracy?

YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.

STRANGER: And do not these three expand in a manner into five, producing

out of themselves two other names?

YOUNG SOCRATES: What are they?

STRANGER: There is a criterion of voluntary and involuntary, poverty and

riches, law and the absence of law, which men now-a-days apply to them;

the two first they subdivide accordingly, and ascribe to monarchy two

forms and two corresponding names, royalty and tyranny.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.

STRANGER: And the government of the few they distinguish by the names of

aristocracy and oligarchy.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.

Statesman