Plato's Socrates borrows from Homer
In the Republic, Socrates says the just man 'has turned out to be' a figure the reader will recognise — an idea, he says, acquired from Homer, who regards Autolycus with complacency. The Odyssey passage names Autolycus' daughter Anticleia among the dead.
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“the very same man is a good guardian of an army who is good at stealing a march upon the enemy in respect of their designs and proceedings generally. Certainly. Of whatsoever, then, anyone is a skilful guardian, of that he is also a skilful thief? It seems so. If then the just man is an expert in guarding money he is an expert in stealing it. The argument certainly points that way. A kind of thief then the just man it seems has turned out to be, and it is likely that you acquired this idea from Homer. For he regards with complacency Autolycus,”
““Then there came up the spirit of my dead mother,Anticleia, the daughter of great-hearted Autolycus, whom I had left alive when I departed for sacred Ilios.”