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of harping for accompaniment of a song and close wrestling, what do you call the “better” in the case of harping, to correspond with what in the case of wrestling I call gymnastic? What do you call the other?
Alcibiades
I do not understand.
Socrates
Well, try to copy me: for my answer gave you, I think, what is correct in every instance; and that is correct, I presume, which proceeds by rule of the art, is it not?
Alcibiades
Yes.
Socrates
And was not the art here gymnastic?
Alcibiades
To be sure.