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 1 2|   principles, we must assert that imitation is not to be judged of by
 2 2|         kind of music which is an imitation of the good.~Cleinias. Very
 3 2|         is true; and the truth of imitation consists, as we were saying,
 4 2|          first place, of what the imitation is; secondly, he must know
 5 2| celebrated than any other kind of imitation, and therefore requires
 6 2|          point, viz., whether the imitation is good or not, though he
 7 4|     virtue. I was saying that the imitation of enemies was a bad thing;
 8 6|           of solo singing, and of imitation—I mean of rhapsodists, players
 9 7|          distinguish good and bad imitation, that is to say, the imitation
10 7|    imitation, that is to say, the imitation of the good or bad soul
11 7|       attain virtue by the way of imitation.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian.
12 7|      action, as, for example, the imitation of archery and the hurling
13 7|      sorts of blows. And when the imitation is of brave bodies and souls,
14 7|          still; and so out of the imitation of words in gestures the
15 7|         in these various kinds of imitation one man moves in an orderly,
16 7|         element of novelty in the imitation. Let these then be laid
17 7|         for our whole state is an imitation of the best and noblest