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or only what is likely to gratify the crowd of spectators?Callicles
Clearly the latter is the case, Socrates, with Cinesias.Socrates
And what of his father Meles? Did he ever strike you as looking to what was best in his minstrelsy? Or did he, perhaps, not even make the pleasantest his aim? For his singing used to be a pain to the audience. But consider now: do you not think that all minstrelsy and composing of dithyrambs have been invented for the sake of pleasure?Callicles
I do.
Clearly the latter is the case, Socrates, with Cinesias.Socrates
And what of his father Meles? Did he ever strike you as looking to what was best in his minstrelsy? Or did he, perhaps, not even make the pleasantest his aim? For his singing used to be a pain to the audience. But consider now: do you not think that all minstrelsy and composing of dithyrambs have been invented for the sake of pleasure?Callicles
I do.