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he
said, “in that they know it and do abstain.”
“Then, my friend, if you think this is the right way, you
apparently do not approve of a Syracusan table1 and Sicilian variety of made dishes.”
“I think not.” “You would frown, then, on a
little Corinthian maid as the chère
amie of men who were to keep themselves fit?”
“Most certainly.” “And also on the seeming
delights of Attic pastry?” “Inevitably.”
“In general, I take it, if we likened that kind of food and
regimen to music and song expressed in the pan-harmonic mode and
1 Proverbial, like the “Corinthian maid” and the “Attic pastry.” Cf. Otto, Sprichw. d. Rom. p. 321, Newman, Introduction to Aristotle's Politics, p. 302. Cf. also Phaedrus 240 B.
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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