to the home of Polemarchus' father, where dinner will be provided

去普雷马科斯的父亲的家里那里已经给他们
for them, and later, a return to the festival where there

准备好了晚餐稍后他们会回到举办庆典的地方
will be a horseback race. "It seems," Glaucon says,

那里有场骑马比赛 "看起来" 格劳孔说
"we must stay."

"我们必须留下了"
And Socrates concurs.

苏格拉底同意了
Why does the book begin with this, let's say, opening gambit?

为什么这本书以这个故事作为开场白
Is it simply a ruse to get the reader's attention in some sense

它在某种意义上是否仅仅是为了吸引读者注意的策略
or to rope you in with some promise of what's to follow?

还是用这些需要遵循的允诺来吸引你
Already from the very opening lines we see in this a clue to the theme

从开头的这几行我们已经看到了将要追随的
that is going to follow.

主题的线索
Who has the title to rule?

谁有统治的权利
Is it Polemarchus and his friends who claim to rule

普雷马科斯和他的朋友们是凭借着人数的力量