[Laws by Plato]@TWC D-Link bookLaws INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS 202/519
And the wardens of the city shall have a similar power of inflicting punishment and fines in their own department. In the next place, there must be directors of music and gymnastic; one class of them superintending gymnasia and schools, and the attendance and lodging of the boys and girls--the other having to do with contests of music and gymnastic.
In musical contests there shall be one kind of judges of solo singing or playing, who will judge of rhapsodists, flute-players, harp-players and the like, and another of choruses.
There shall be choruses of men and boys and maidens--one director will be enough to introduce them all, and he should not be less than forty years of age; secondly, of solos also there shall be one director, aged not less than thirty years; he will introduce the competitors and give judgment upon them.
The director of the choruses is to be elected in an assembly at which all who take an interest in music are compelled to attend, and no one else.
Candidates must only be proposed for their fitness, and opposed on the ground of unfitness.
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