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splendid paintings, but the more sacred ones are taught in the temple.
In the halls and wings of the rings there are solar time-pieces and
bells, and hands by which the hours and seasons are marked off.

G.M. Tell me about their children.

Capt. When their women have brought forth children, they suckle and rear
them in temples set apart for all. They give milk for two years or more
as the physician orders. After that time the weaned child is given into
the charge of the mistresses, if it is a female, and to the masters,
if it is a male. And then with other young children they are pleasantly
instructed in the alphabet, and in the knowledge of the pictures, and in
running, walking, and wrestling; also in the historical drawings, and
in languages; and they are adorned with a suitable garment of different
colors. After their sixth year they are taught natural science, and then
the mechanical sciences. The men who are weak in intellect are sent
to farms, and when they have become more proficient some of them are
received into the State. And those of the same age and born under the
same constellation are especially like one another in strength and in
appearance, and hence arises much lasting concord in the State, these
men honoring one another with mutual love and help. Names are given
to them by Metaphysicus, and that not by chance, but designedly, and
according to each one's peculiarity, as was the custom among the
ancient Romans. Wherefore one is called Beautiful (Pulcher), another
the Big-nosed (Naso), another the Fat-legged (Cranipes), another Crooked
(Torvus), another Lean (Macer), and so on. But when they have become
very skilled in their professions and done any great deed in war or in
time of peace, a cognomen from art is given to them, such as Beautiful
the Great Painter (Pulcher, Pictor Magnus), the Golden One (Aureus),
the Excellent One (Excellens), or the Strong (Strenuus); or from their
deeds, such as Naso the Brave (Nason Fortis), or the Cunning, or the
Great, or Very Great Conqueror; or from the enemy anyone has overcome,
Africanus, Asiaticus, Etruscus; or if anyone has overcome Manfred or
Tortelius, he is called Macer Manfred or Tortelius, and so on. All these
cognomens are added by the higher magistrates, and very often with a
crown suitable to the deed or art, and with the flourish of music.
For gold and silver are reckoned of little value among them except as
material for their vessels and ornamen