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Yes, he said; I know that they have a washed-out and ridiculous

appearance.

Then now, I said, you will understand what our object was in

selecting our soldiers, and educating them in music and

gymnastic; we were contriving influences which would prepare them

to take the dye of the laws in perfection, and the colour of

their opinion about dangers and of every other opinion was to be

indelibly fixed by their nurture and training, not to be washed

away by such potent lyes as pleasure-mightier agent far in

washing the soul than any soda or lye; or by sorrow, fear, and

desire, the mightiest of all other solvents. And this sort of

universal saving power of true opinion in conformity with law

about real and false dangers I call and maintain to be courage,

unless you disagree.