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Plato, Laws
Plat. Laws 2.666c
Πλάτων Νόμοι Β', 666C.
[666ξ] σκληροτέρου τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ἦθος, καθάπερ εἰς πῦρ σίδηρον ἐντεθέντα γιγνόμενον, καὶ οὕτως εὐπλαστότερον εἶναι; πρῶτον μὲν δὴ διατεθεὶς οὕτως ἕκαστος ἆρ᾽ οὐκ ἂν ἐθέλοι προθυμότερόν γε, ἧττον αἰσχυνόμενος, οὐκ ἐν πολλοῖς ἀλλὰ ἐν μετρίοις, καὶ οὐκ ἐν ἀλλοτρίοις ἀλλ᾽ ἐν οἰκείοις, ᾁδειν τε καὶ ὃ πολλάκις εἰρήκαμεν ἐπᾴδειν;
Κλεινίας
καὶ πολύ γε.
Ἀθηναῖος
εἰς μέν γε τὸ προάγειν τοίνυν αὐτοὺς μετέχειν ἡμῖν ᾠδῆς οὗτος ὁ τρόπος οὐκ ἂν παντάπασιν ἀσχήμων
[666c] may lose its hardness and become softer and more ductile, even as iron when it has been forged in the fire. Will not this softer disposition, in the first place, render each one of them more ready and less ashamed to sing chants and “incantations” (as we have often called them), in the presence, not of a large company of strangers, but of a small number of intimate friends?
Clinias
Yes! much more ready.
Athenian
So then, for the purpose of inducing them
Plato. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet. Oxford University Press. 1903.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0166:book=2:section=666c
Plat. Laws 2.666c
Πλάτων Νόμοι Β', 666C.
[666ξ] σκληροτέρου τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ἦθος, καθάπερ εἰς πῦρ σίδηρον ἐντεθέντα γιγνόμενον, καὶ οὕτως εὐπλαστότερον εἶναι; πρῶτον μὲν δὴ διατεθεὶς οὕτως ἕκαστος ἆρ᾽ οὐκ ἂν ἐθέλοι προθυμότερόν γε, ἧττον αἰσχυνόμενος, οὐκ ἐν πολλοῖς ἀλλὰ ἐν μετρίοις, καὶ οὐκ ἐν ἀλλοτρίοις ἀλλ᾽ ἐν οἰκείοις, ᾁδειν τε καὶ ὃ πολλάκις εἰρήκαμεν ἐπᾴδειν;
Κλεινίας
καὶ πολύ γε.
Ἀθηναῖος
εἰς μέν γε τὸ προάγειν τοίνυν αὐτοὺς μετέχειν ἡμῖν ᾠδῆς οὗτος ὁ τρόπος οὐκ ἂν παντάπασιν ἀσχήμων
[666c] may lose its hardness and become softer and more ductile, even as iron when it has been forged in the fire. Will not this softer disposition, in the first place, render each one of them more ready and less ashamed to sing chants and “incantations” (as we have often called them), in the presence, not of a large company of strangers, but of a small number of intimate friends?
Clinias
Yes! much more ready.
Athenian
So then, for the purpose of inducing them
Plato. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet. Oxford University Press. 1903.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0166:book=2:section=666c