Verify Citation - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord

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Thus (per McClain[1] 1978: p. 33): A tyrant suffers “exactly 729 times” as much as a philosopher, “king of himself” (Republic[2] 572b).

Is this the right passage that is cited? It’s hard to tell if it is relevant at the link we cite for 572b (Plato, Republic, via Tufts University’s Perseus Digital Library Project, 572b).

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  1. Ernest G. McClain, The Pythagorean Plato: Prelude to the Song Itself (Maine: 1978), p. 33.
  2. Plato, Republic, via Tufts University’s Perseus Digital Library Project, 572b.