The Game of Polis and Plato's Rep. 422 E

This well known passage has given rise to some discussion in recent years, the words being the centre of the fray. The Scholiast says Most modern commentators have followed the Scholiast. But Mr. J. A. Stewart in the Classical Beview (Vol. vii. 3–59) follows the President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in stating that the Scholiast was led astray by the proverb and that there is really no reference at all to the game ot Polis, and compares with it the passage from the Meno, 77 A.