Walls

One day, 1,600 years ago, Leontius was walking from Piraus to Athena. He saw a pile of corpses beneath the northern city wall: the bodies of the executed. In the story that Socrates tells, Leontius, between dread and desire, could not stop himself from getting closer to view the dead bodies. Then he shouted, "Look, ye wretches! Take your fill of the fair sight."

This fragment is from Plato's The Republic. If we follow Adi Ophir's interpretation of it

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