It is the task of one rightly oriented toward others to draw the circles in toward the centre.
ἔργον δὴ τοῦ καλῶς οἰκειουμένου πρὸς ἑκάστους τῷ συναιρεῖν εἰς τὸ μέσον τοὺς κύκλους.
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Hierocles
Roman Stoic of the second century AD, known almost entirely through one papyrus recovered at Hermopolis in 1901. His concentric-circles model of cosmopolitanism remains a key tool in modern moral philosophy.
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