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 1 2|          habituated to forms and strains of virtue. These they fixed,
 2 2|      children, reciting in their strains all the noble thoughts of
 3 2|     charming themselves with the strains of which we have spoken;
 4 2| influence, sing these fairest of strains, which are to do so much
 5 3|          race and often in their strains, by the aid of the Muses
 6 7|       them and lap them in sweet strains; and the Bacchic women are
 7 7|          affirm the paradox that strains of music are our laws (nomoi),
 8 7|      ought we not to forbid such strains as these? And if ever our
 9 7|      appropriate if we have such strains at all; and let the apparel
10 7|   dancing, music, and all choral strains, according to the mind of
11 7|      dances and music and choral strains, I have already spoken both
12 7|          pupils are to use those strains which are written in prose,
13 7|       been informed what martial strains they are to learn and practise;
14 7|          both makers of the same strains, rivals and antagonists