[410c]
had not the purpose
in view that some attribute to them in so instituting, namely to treat the
body by one and the soul by the other?” “But
what?” he said. “It seems likely,” I said,
“that they ordained both chiefly for the soul's sake.”
“How so?” “Have you not observed,”
said I, “the effect on the disposition of the mind itself1 of lifelong devotion
to gymnastics with total neglect of music? Or the disposition of those of
the opposite habit?” “In what respect do you
mean?” he said.
1 For the thought cf. Euripides Suppl. 882 f. and Polybius's account of the effect of the neglect of music on the Arcadians (iv. 20).
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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