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the more austere1 and less delightful poet and tale-teller, who
would imitate the diction of the good man and would tell his tale in the
patterns which we prescribed in the beginning,2 when we set out to educate our
soldiers.” “We certainly should do that if it rested
with us.” “And now, my friend,” said I,
“we may say that we have completely finished the part of music
that concerns speeches and tales. For we have set forth what is to be said
and how it is to be said.” “I think so too,”
he replied.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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