Plato, Euthydemus, section 291d

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[291d] and was the cause of right conduct in the state, and precisely as Aeschylus' line¹ expresses it, is seated alone at the helm of the city, steering the whole, commanding the whole, and making the whole useful.

Crito
And surely your notion was a good one, Socrates?

Socrates
You shall judge of that, Crito, if you care to hear what befell us thereafter. For later on we reconsidered it somewhat in this manner: Look now, does the monarch's art, that rules over all, produce any effect

1 Cf. Aesch. Seven 2 “Whoso at helm of the state keeps watch upon affairs, guiding the tiller without resting his eyelids in sleep.”

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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