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Protarchus

Pro. I think I understand you in part, Socrates, but I need a clearer statement of some things.

Socrates

Soc. Surely my meaning, Protarchus, is made clear in the letters of the alphabet, which you were taught as a child; so learn it from them.

Protarchus

Pro. How?

Socrates

Soc. Sound, which passes out through the mouth of each and all of us, is one, and yet again it is infinite in number. 5

Protarchus

Pro. Yes, to be sure.

Socrates

Soc. And one of us is no wiser than the other merely for knowing that it is infinite or that it is one; but that which makes each of us a grammarian is the knowledge of the number and nature of sounds.

Protarchus

Pro. Very true.

Socrates

Soc. And it is this same knowledge which makes the musician.

Protarchus

Pro. How is that? 10

Socrates

Soc. Sound is one in the art of music also, so far as that art is concerned.

Protarchus

Pro. Of course.

Socrates

Soc. And we may say that there are two sounds, low and high, and a third, which is the intermediate, may we not?

Protarchus

Pro. Yes.

Socrates

Soc. But knowledge of these facts would not suffice to make you a musician, although ignorance of them would make you, if I may say so, quite worthless in respect to music. 15

Protarchus

Pro. Certainly.