How we cite our quotes: (Act.Scene.Line)
Quote #10
ALCIBIADES:
With my more noble meaning, not a man
Shall pass his quarter, or offend the stream
Of regular justice in your city's bounds,
But shall be render'd to your public laws
At heaviest answer. (5.4.59-63)
As Alcibiades stands outside Athens, ready to conquer, he reasons with the people about what his reign will be like. Unsurprisingly, justice is now described as an element of nature (a stream) instead of something that is hard and fast, like it was before. Could nature and metropolis finally form a union?