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“Shall we not, then,” I said,
“set down as a study requisite for a soldier the ability to reckon and
number?” “Most certainly, if he is to know anything whatever
of the ordering of his troops—or rather if he is to be a man at
all.1” “Do you observe then,” said I,
“in this study what I do?” “What?”
“It seems likely
1 Cf. Laws 819 D.
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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