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Nor, if a man is to be in condition, would you allow him to have

a Corinthian girl as his fair friend?

Certainly not.

Neither would you approve of the delicacies, as they are thought,

of Athenian confectionary?

Certainly not.

All such feeding and living may be rightly compared by us to

melody and song composed in the panharmonic style, and in all the

rhythms.

Exactly.

There complexity engendered licence, and here disease; whereas

simplicity in music was the parent of temperance in the soul; and

simplicity in gymnastic of health in the body.

Most true, he said.

But when intemperance and diseases multiply in a State, halls of

justice and medicine are always being opened; and the arts of the

doctor and the lawyer give themselves airs, finding how keen is

the interest which not only the slaves but the freemen of a city

take about them.

Of course.