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and acquiescing in the outcome. Leave us these
two modes—the forced and the voluntary—that will best
imitate the utterances of men failing or succeeding, the temperate, the
brave—leave us these.” “Well,” said
he, “you are asking me to leave none other than those I just spoke
of.” “Then,” said I, “we shall not
need in our songs and airs instruments of many strings or whose compass
includes all the harmonies.” “Not in my
opinion,” said he. “Then we shall not maintain makers of
triangles and harps and all other
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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