All of these three things, in my judgment, are necessary to understand how the polis came into being, how it came to be what it was, and how it came to fulfill and believe in these ideas that I have just been telling you about.

所有这三个事情,在我看来,对于了解城邦是如何产生,如何成型,以及如何实现,和验证那些我刚刚,告诉你们的理念,是不可或缺的

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