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That, he said, will be his mode of speaking.

These, then, are the two kinds of style?

Yes.

And you would agree with me in saying that one of them is simple

and has but slight changes; and if the harmony and rhythm are

also chosen for their simplicity, the result is that the speaker,

if he speaks correctly, is always pretty much the same in style,

and he will keep within the limits of a single harmony (for the

changes are not great), and in like manner he will make use of

nearly the same rhythm?

That is quite true, he said.

Whereas the other requires all sorts of harmonies and all sorts

of rhythms, if the music and the style are to correspond, because

the style has all sorts of changes.

That is also perfectly true, he replied.

And do not the two styles, or the mixture of the two, comprehend

all poetry, and every form of expression in words? No one can say

anything except in one or other of them or in both together.

They include all, he said.