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Athenian
And I suppose that (to take the simplest point) the most beautiful bodies must grow up from earliest infancy as straight as possible.Clinias
Most certainly.Athenian
Well then, do we not observe that in every living creature the first shoot makes by far the largest and longest growth; so that many people stoutly maintain that in point of height men grow more in the first five years of life than in the next twenty?Clinias
That is true.Athenian
But we know, don't we, that when growth occurs rapidly,
And I suppose that (to take the simplest point) the most beautiful bodies must grow up from earliest infancy as straight as possible.Clinias
Most certainly.Athenian
Well then, do we not observe that in every living creature the first shoot makes by far the largest and longest growth; so that many people stoutly maintain that in point of height men grow more in the first five years of life than in the next twenty?Clinias
That is true.Athenian
But we know, don't we, that when growth occurs rapidly,
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