Thus they will become softer and more impressible; and when a man's heart is warm within him, he will be more ready to charm himself and others with song.
And what songs shall he sing?
'At Crete and Lacedaemon we only know choral songs.' Yes; that is because your way of life is military.

Your young men are like wild colts feeding in a herd together; no one takes the individual colt and trains him apart, and tries to give him the qualities of a statesman as well as of a soldier.

He who was thus trained would be a greater warrior than those of whom Tyrtaeus speaks, for he would be courageous, and yet he would know that courage was only fourth in the scale of virtue.

'Once more, I must say, Stranger, that you run down our lawgivers.' Not intentionally, my good friend, but whither the argument leads I follow; and I am trying to find some style of poetry suitable for those who dislike the common sort.

'Very good.' In all things which have a charm, either this charm is their good, or they have some accompanying truth or advantage.