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to produce men of that sort they should receive a special education which is treated at some length. The poets as very bad liars are to be under the ban. This attack upon them occupies all the rest of Book II and extends for into Book III the division between those books having nothing to do with the substance. This leads to a discussion of the ethical qualities of imitation. 394E-397A. This again leads to the remark that there are two kids of speech or styles [foreign text] 397B. as wellas a mixture of the two . Certain musical scales are to be prohibited. In fact Plato's state is wonderfully prohibitve. Licentious degraded and indecorous sculpture for example is not to be tolerated 401B. The youth must dwell in a healthy place amid fair sights and sounds and receive good through every sense 401C. Hence music will be of the utmost importance in education. In order to become musical it is essential to be familiar with the virtues the images of self command of courage of frank