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It was
not therefore without reason that Plato regarded the
knowledge of music as necessary to his ideal statesman or politician, as he calls him; while the leaders
even of that school, which in other respects is the
strictest and most severe of all schools of philosophy,1
held that the wise man might well devote some of
his attention to such studies. Lycurgus himself, the
founder of the stern laws of Sparta, approved of the
training supplied by music.
1 sc. the Stoics.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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