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Contents: Hippias MajorHippias MinorIonMenexenusCleitophonTimaeusCritiasMinosEpinomis, or Nocturnal Council |
Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis
Ion: Socrates
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[536c] and you have plenty to say: for it is not by art or knowledge about Homer that you say what you say, but by divine dispensation and possession; just as the Corybantian worshippers are keenly sensible of that strain alone which belongs to the god whose possession is on them, and have plenty of gestures and phrases for that tune, but do not heed any other. And so you, Ion, when the subject of Homer is mentioned, have plenty to say, but nothing on any of the others. And when you ask me the reason
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This text is based on the following book(s): 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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