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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: SOCRATES: At any rate, you will allow that every discourse ought to be a
living creature, having a body of its own and a head and feet; there should
be a middle, beginning, and end, adapted to one another and to the whole?
PHAEDRUS: Certainly.
SOCRATES: Can this be said of the discourse of Lysias? See whether you
can find any more connexion in his words than in the epitaph which is said
by some to have been inscribed on the grave of Midas the Phrygian.
PHAEDRUS: What is there remarkable in the epitaph?
SOCRATES: It is as follows:--
'I am a maiden of bronze and lie on the tomb of Midas;
So long as water flows and tall trees grow,
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