Plato, Laws, Book 7, section 812b

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[812b]

Clinias
Very true.

Athenian
After the writing-master, must we not address the lyre-master next?

Clinias
Certainly.

Athenian
When assigning to the lyre-masters their proper duties in regard to the teaching and general training in these subjects, we must, as I think, bear in mind our previous declarations.¹

Clinias
Declarations about what?

Athenian
We said, I fancy, that the sixty-year-old singers of hymns to Dionysus ought to be exceptionally keen of perception

1 Plat. Laws 664e., Plat. Laws 679a.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 10 & 11 translated by R.G. Bury. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967 & 1968.

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