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Plato, Ion, 530c

nan his thought and not merely learning off his words, is a matter for envy; since a man can never be a good rhapsode without understanding what the poet says. For the rhapsode ought to make himself an interpreter of the poet’s thought to his audience; and to do this properly without knowing what the poet means is impossible. So one cannot but envy all this. Ion. What you say is true, Socrates: I at any rate have found this the most laborious part of my art; and I consider I speak about Homer better than anybody, for neither

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allegorists	Černušková (2016) 62
allegory/-ies	Černušková (2016) 62
concealment,conceal	Černušková (2016) 62
enigma/enigmas,enigmatic	Černušková (2016) 62
ethics	Černušková (2016) 62
exegesis	Černušková (2016) 62
high priest	Černušková (2016) 62
homer	Černušková (2016) 62
logos	Černušková (2016) 62
metaphor	Černušková (2016) 62
mystical	Černušková (2016) 62
number	Černušková (2016) 62
physical	Černušková (2016) 62
plato	Černušková (2016) 62
rites	Černušková (2016) 62
symbolical style of scripture	Černušková (2016) 62
symbolikos,to symbolikon eidos	Černušková (2016) 62
trope'	Černušková (2016) 62