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“At what age?” he
said. “When they are released from their prescribed gymnastics. For
that period, whether it be two or three years, incapacitates them for other
occupations.1 For great fatigue and much sleep are the foes of study,
and moreover one of our tests of them, and not the least, will be their behavior
in their physical exercises.2” “Surely it
is,” he said. “After this period,” I said,
“those who are given preference from the twenty-year class will
receive greater honors than the others,
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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