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[646d]

Clinias
Quite true.

Athenian
Should one not take the same view of the other institutions also?

Clinias
Certainly.

Athenian
Then one must also take the same view of the practice of wine-drinking, if one can rightly class it amongst the others.

Clinias
Of course one must.

Athenian
If then this practice should be shown to be quite as beneficial for us as bodily training, certainly at the outset it is superior to it, in so far as it is not, like bodily training, accompanied by pain.

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