 | Plato - 1875 - 738 pagini
...and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them ; for the chains are arranged in such a manner as to prevent them from turning round their heads. Above and behind them the light of a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners... | |
 | Plato - 1881 - 532 pagini
...and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them ; for the chains are arranged in such a manner as to prevent them from turning round their heads. Above and behind them the light of a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1884 - 414 pagini
...nothing but what is straight before them. At a distance above and behind them a bright fire burns, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way, with a low wall built along it, like the screens which the marionette-players put up in front of their... | |
 | David Riddle Breed - 1891 - 436 pagini
...have their legs and their necks chained so that they cannot move and can only see before them, hut the chains are arranged in such a manner as to prevent them from turning their heads. Above and behind them the light of a fire is blazing at a distance. They see only their... | |
 | 1892 - 850 pagini
...nothing but what is straight before them. At a distance above and behind them, a bright fire burns, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way, with a low wall built along it, like the screens which the marionette players in ancient Greece put... | |
 | 1892 - 880 pagini
...nothing but what is straight before them. At a distance above and behind them, a bright fire burns, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way, with a low wall built along it, like the screens which the marionette players in ancient Greece put... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 466 pagini
...childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them; for the chains are arranged in such a manner as to prevent them from turning their heads around. At a distance above and behind them the light of a fire is blazing, and between... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - 1898 - 220 pagini
...from turning round their heads. Above and behind them the light of a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if ydu look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - 1898 - 220 pagini
...childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them; for the chains are arranged in such a manner as to prevent them from turning round their heads. Above and behind them the light of a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners... | |
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Behold ! human beings living in a sort of underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all across the den; they have been here from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only... 
