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In the Republic, Thrasymachus declares that “the just is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger” (338c).  What does he mean and what evidence do Thucydides (within his History of the Peloponnesian War and Melian Dialogues) and Plato (Republic Book 1-4, The Trial and Death of Socrates/Apology) provide against his view?