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Logic IV. 88.

ness [foreign text] of dignity or magnificence [foreign text] and their congeners 402C. Plato is here led to some remarks about love which I am almost tempted to copy as helping render his line of thought clear. It all relates to love between males for Plato can see nothing to love in women. Gymnastics are then considered but Syracusan and other refinements of the Sicilian cuisine are not approved. Nor are Corinthian cocottes nor Athenian confectionary. There ought to be no need of medical men or lawyers. He says that before the time of Herodicus the Aoclepiads did not practive the present method of medicine which is the invention of a lingering death. Asclepius did not wish to cure men who would be of no benefit to the stock. 407E. This talk about medicince goes to p. 409 when a page is devoted to lawyers add a few more remarks of music and gymnastics and then asks who are to rule and who are to be ruled [foreign text]