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(
turannos
), dictator: an officer of a city who rules according to his own ideas.

(
sophist
ē
s
), sophist: paid hunter of rich and distinguished young men.

(
ploutos
), wealth: having sufficient possessions to live happily; an abundance of property which conduces to happiness.

(
parakatath
ē
k
ē
), deposit: something given on trust.

(
katharsis
), purification: the separation of the worse from the better.

(
nikan
), being victorious: prevailing in a conflict.

(
agathos anthr
ō
pos
), good person: the sort of person who can achieve what is good for a human being.

(
s
ō
phr
ō
n
), self-controlled: person having moderate desires.

(
enkrat
ē
s
), self-restrained: one who overpowers the parts of the soul when they are contrary to right reason.

(
spoudaios
), excellent: he who is completely good; he who has the virtue proper to human [e] beings.

(
sunnoia
), worry: an irrational and disturbing thought.

(
dusmathia
), stupidity: slowness in learning.

(
despoteia
), rule over slaves: just authority which is accountable to nobody.

(
aphilosophia
), lack of philosophy: the state whose possessor is a hater of argument.