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“Well,” said I, “on this
point we will take counsel with Damon,The Platonic
Socrates frequently refers to Damon as his musical expert. Cf. Laches 200
B, 424 C, Alc. I. 118 C. too, as to which are the
feet appropriate to illiberality, and insolence or madness or other evils,
and what rhythms we must leave for their opposites; and I believe I have
heard him obscurely speakingThere is a hint
of satire in this disclaimer of expert knowledge. Cf. 399 A. There is no
agreement among modern experts with regard to the precise form of the
so-called enoplios. Cf. my review of Herkenrath's “Der
Enoplios,”Class. Phil. vol. iii. p. 360, Goodell, Chapters on Greek
Metric, pp. 185 and 189, Blaydes on Ar
and he added the quantities
long and short. And in some of these, I believe, he censured and commended
the tempo of the foot no less than the rhythm itself, or else some
combination of the two; I can't say. But, as I said, let this matter be
postponed for Damon's
consideration. For to determine the truth of these would require no little
discourse. Do you think otherwise?” “No, by heaven, I do
not.” “But this you are able to determine—that
seemliness and unseemliness are attendant upon the good rhythm and the
bad.” “Of course.” “And,
further,Plato, as often, employs the
forms of an argument proceeding by minute links to accumulate synonyms
in illustration of a moral or aesthetic a