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[665b] choir must necessarily be described, which is that of Dionysus.

Clinias
How so? Tell us; for at the first mention of it, a Dionysiac choir of old men sounds mighty strange,—if you mean that men over thirty, and even men over fifty and up to sixty, are really going to dance in his honor.

Athenian
That is, indeed, perfectly true. It needs argument, I fancy, to show how such a procedure would be reasonable.

Clinias
It does.

Athenian
Are we agreed about our previous proposals?

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