Notes are struck which are repeated from time to time, as in a strain of music.

There is none of this subtle art in the Laws.

The illustrations, such as the two kinds of doctors, 'the three kinds of funerals,' the fear potion, the puppet, the painter leaving a successor to restore his picture, the 'person stopping to consider where three ways meet,' the 'old laws about water of which he will not divert the course,' can hardly be said to do much credit to Plato's invention.

The citations from the poets have lost that fanciful character which gave them their charm in the earlier dialogues.

We are tired of images taken from the arts of navigation, or archery, or weaving, or painting, or medicine, or music.