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There remain then only the lyre and the harp for use in the city,

and the shepherds may have a pipe in the country.

That is surely the conclusion to be drawn from the argument.

The preferring of Apollo and his instruments to Marsyas and his

instruments is not at all strange, I said.

Not at all, he replied.

And so, by the dog of Egypt, we have been unconsciously purging

the State, which not long ago we termed luxurious.

And we have done wisely, he replied.