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    Ion: Socrates

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    [530c] 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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    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
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    Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.
    OCLC: 21777623, 15624657, 4601236, 4226954
    ISBN: 0674991850, 0674992571, 0674992210, 0674991826

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