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 1 1 |      their earliest youth all boys, when they are told that
 2 2 |     we begin by enacting that boys shall not taste wine at
 3 3 |       silence to the end; and boys and their tutors, and the
 4 4 |       to amuse ourselves, old boys as we are, by moulding in
 5 6 |       of school buildings for boys and girls; and in speaking
 6 6 | directors for the choruses of boys, and men, and maidens, whom
 7 6 |       lawfully begotten, both boys and girls by preference,
 8 7 |     by us at Athens. Not only boys, but often older persons,
 9 7 |   separation of the sexes—let boys live with boys, and girls
10 7 |      sexes—let boys live with boys, and girls in like manner
11 7 |       must begin to learn—the boys going to teachers of horsemanship
12 7 |  education, that all of them, boys and girls alike, may be
13 7 |    will be right also for the boys, until such time as they
14 7 |       female, and the serving–boys, and, if that were possible,
15 7 |   manner about gymnastic. For boys and girls ought to learn
16 7 |       Yes.~Athenian. Then the boys ought to have dancing masters,
17 7 |  pupils should be the men and boys in the state, and also the
18 8 |      kinds of contests—one of boys, another of beardless youths,
19 8 |       two–thirds, and for the boys at half of the entire course,
20 8 |       do so, girls as well as boys, and no blame to them.~Thus
21 12|       maidens, and another of boys, shall stand around the
22 12|    others in like manner. And boys neat the bier and in front