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good rhythm and bad rhythm accompany, the one fair
diction, assimilating itself thereto, and the other the opposite, and so of
the apt and the unapt, if, as we were just now saying, the rhythm and
harmony follow the words and not the words these.” “They
certainly must follow the speech,” he said. “And what of
the manner of the diction, and the speech?” said I. “Do
they not follow and conform to the disposition of the soul?”
“Of course.” “And all the rest to the
diction?” “Yes.” “Good speech, then,
good accord, and good grace,
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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