Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Plato, Ion, 532b

nan you could distinguish also the inferiority of the worse speakers. Ion. So it would seem. Soc. Then, my excellent friend, we shall not be wrong in saying that our Ion is equally skilled in Homer and in the other poets, seeing that you yourself admit that the same man will be a competent judge of all who speak on the same things, and that practically all the poets treat of the same things. Ion. Then what can be the reason, Socrates, why I pay no attention when somebody discusses any other poet, and am unable to offer any remark at all of any value

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allusion	Fowler (2014) 240
choricius	Fowler (2014) 240
hesiod	Fowler (2014) 240
homer	Fowler (2014) 240
muse/muses	Fowler (2014) 240
plato,ion	Fowler (2014) 240
plato	Fowler (2014) 240
poet,poetry	Fowler (2014) 240
technē/τέχνη'	Fowler (2014) 240