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or failing to persuade them, would themselves
have escorted them wheresoever they went until they should have sufficiently
imbibed their culture?” “What you say seems to me to be
altogether true, Socrates,” he said. “Shall we, then,
lay it down that all the poetic tribe, beginning with Homer,1 are imitators of images of
excellence and of the other things that they ‘create,2’ and do not lay
hold on truth? but, as we were just now saying, the painter will fashion,
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