[796d]
Contests, too, and preliminary trials must be carried out with a view to the objects stated, if at all; for these objects are useful both in peace and war, alike for the State and for private families; but all other kinds of work and play and bodily exercise are not worthy of a gentleman. And now, O Megillus and Clinias, I have pretty fully described that gymnastic training which—as I said1 early in our discourse—requires description: here it is in its full completeness. So if you know of a better gymnastic than this,
1 Plat. Laws 672d, Plat. Laws 673a ff.; cp. also Plat. Laws 813d ff.
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