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    Plato, Republic

    Socrates

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    [404d] he said, “in that they know it and do abstain.” “Then, my friend, if you think this is the right way, you apparently do not approve of a Syracusan table1 and Sicilian variety of made dishes.” “I think not.” “You would frown, then, on a little Corinthian maid as the chère amie of men who were to keep themselves fit?” “Most certainly.” “And also on the seeming delights of Attic pastry?” “Inevitably.” “In general, I take it, if we likened that kind of food and regimen to music and song expressed in the pan-harmonic mode and

    1 Proverbial, like the “Corinthian maid” and the “Attic pastry.” Cf. Otto, Sprichw. d. Rom. p. 321, Newman, Introduction to Aristotle's Politics, p. 302. Cf. also Phaedrus 240 B.

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    Further comments from James Adam, The Republic of Plato:
    book 3 (general note)
    book 3, section 404d: Surakosian -- opsou
    book 3, section 404d: Korinthian korên
    book 3, section 404d: Attikôn pemmatôn
    book 3, section 404d: panarmoniôi

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    Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
    OCLC: 1886340
    ISBN: 0674992628, 0674993047

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