[456b]
“Women of this
kind, then, must be selected to cohabit with men of this kind and to serve
with them as guardians since they are capable of it and akin by
nature.” “By all means.” “And to the
same natures must we not assign the same pursuits?” “The
same.” “We come round,1 then, to our previous
statement, and agree that it does not run counter to nature to assign music
and gymnastics to the wives of the guardians.”
1 Cf. Gorgias 517 C.
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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