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 1 6|    school buildings for boys and girls; and in speaking of contests,
 2 6|          begotten, both boys and girls by preference, at any rate,
 3 7|         boys live with boys, and girls in like manner with girls.
 4 7|        girls in like manner with girls. Now they must begin to
 5 7|      javelin, and sling, and the girls too, if they do not object,
 6 7|       that all of them, boys and girls alike, may be sound hand
 7 7| Lacedaemon, Megillus—letting the girls share in gymnastic and music,
 8 7|          gymnastic. For boys and girls ought to learn to dance
 9 7|         dancing masters, and the girls dancing mistresses to exercise
10 7|          the state, and also the girls and women, who are to know
11 7|       things. While they are yet girls they should have practised
12 8|      Touching the women, let the girls who are not grown up compete
13 8|       take part, let them do so, girls as well as boys, and no