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disclose it.Clinias
It is no easy thing, Stranger, to reject your account of gymnastic training and competition, and produce a better one.Athenian
The subject which comes next to this, and deals with the gifts of Apollo and the Muses, is one which we previously1 thought we had done with, and that the only subject left was gymnastic; but I plainly see now, not only what still remains to be said to everybody, but also that it ought to come first. Let us, then, state these points in order.Clinias
By all means let us do so.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 10 & 11 translated by R.G. Bury. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967 & 1968.
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