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in voice and gesture, or will contain but a little of
pure narration.” “That too follows of
necessity,” he said. “These, then,” said I,
“were the two types of diction of which I was aking.”
“There are those two,” he replied. “Now does
not one of the two involve slight variations,1 and if we assign a suitable pitch and rhythm to the diction,
is not the result that the right speaker speaks almost on the same note and
in one cadence—for the changes are slight—
1 Besides its suggestion of change and reaction the word is technical in music for the transition from one harmony to another.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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