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Then you must also have acknowledged justice not to be for the

interest of the stronger, when the rulers unintentionally command

things to be done which are to their own injury. For if, as you

say, justice is the obedience which the subject renders to their

commands, in that case, O wisest of men, is there any escape from

the conclusion that the weaker are commanded to do, not what is

for the interest, but what is for the injury of the stronger?

Nothing can be clearer, Socrates, said Polemarchus.

Yes, said Cleitophon, interposing, if you are allowed to be his

witness.

But there is no need of any witness, said Polemarchus, for

Thrasymachus himself acknowledges that rulers may sometimes

command what is not for their own interest, and that for subjects

to obey them is justice.

Yes, Polemarchus,-Thrasymachus said that for subjects to do what

was commanded by their rulers is just.