In this excerpt from The Republic, Plato is supporting the claim that a luxurious state requires more resources than a healthy state. In a well-constructed paragraph, evaluate the validity of the claim based on the strategy you have learned. Also point out and explain any rhetorical appeals or devices that Plato uses.


"Now will the city have to fill and swell with a multitude of callings which are not required by any natural want; such as the whole tribe of hunters and actors, of whom one large class have to do with forms and colours; another will be the votaries of music—poets and their attendant train of rhapsodists, players, dancers, contractors; also makers of divers kinds of articles, including women’s dresses. And we shall want more servants. Will not tutors be also in request, and nurses wet and dry, tirewomen and barbers, as well as confectioners and cooks; and swineherds, too, who were not needed and therefore had no place in the former edition of our State, but are needed now?”