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Plato, Alcibiades Ii, 147b

nan So that his case aptly fits the saying of the poet, in which he complains of somebody or other that Full many crafts he knew: but still He knew them all so very ill. Margites, Fr. Alc. Why, how on earth is the poet’s saying apposite, Socrates? For to my mind it has nothing to do with the point. Soc. It is very much to the point: but he, good sir, like almost every other poet, speaks in riddles. For poetry as a whole is by nature

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subject	book bibliographic info
allegoresis (allegorical interpretation)	Álvarez (2019) 100, 101
anaxagoras	Álvarez (2019) 100
audience	Álvarez (2019) 101
authority,poetic authority	Álvarez (2019) 101
cosmology	Álvarez (2019) 100
cosmos	Álvarez (2019) 100
derveni author	Álvarez (2019) 100, 101
derveni papyrus,first columns	Álvarez (2019) 100
derveni poem	Álvarez (2019) 100
eschatology	Álvarez (2019) 101
etymology	Álvarez (2019) 100
gods	Álvarez (2019) 100, 101
gods as elements,names of the gods	Álvarez (2019) 100
hades (god)	Álvarez (2019) 100
heraclitus	Álvarez (2019) 101
hesiod	Álvarez (2019) 101
homer	Álvarez (2019) 100, 101
homeric poems	Álvarez (2019) 100
initiates	Álvarez (2019) 101
knowledge,superior knowledge of divine origin	Álvarez (2019) 101
metrodorus of lampsacus	Álvarez (2019) 100
obscure speech	Álvarez (2019) 100, 101
orphic doctrines	Álvarez (2019) 101
pindar	Álvarez (2019) 101
plato	Álvarez (2019) 100, 101
poseidon	Álvarez (2019) 100
pre-socratic philosophers	Álvarez (2019) 100
pythagoreanism	Álvarez (2019) 101
riddles	Álvarez (2019) 100, 101
rites,rituals'	Álvarez (2019) 100
simonides	Álvarez (2019) 101
socrates	Álvarez (2019) 100, 101
theagenes of rhegium	Álvarez (2019) 100, 101
xenophanes	Álvarez (2019) 101
zeus	Álvarez (2019) 100, 101