[373b]
“Yes,” he said. “Then we shall have to
enlarge the city again. For that healthy state is no longer sufficient, but
we must proceed to swell out its bulk and fill it up with a multitude of
things that exceed the requirements of necessity in states, as, for example,
the entire class of huntsmen, and the imitators,1 many of them occupied with figures and colors and many
with music—the poets and their assistants, rhapsodists, actors,
chorus-dancers, contractors2—and
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