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“This,” said he, “seems to me the most
reasonable designation for him, that he is the imitator of the thing which
those others produce.” “Very good,” said I;
“the producer of the product three removes1 from nature you call the
imitator?” “By all means,” he said.
“This, then, will apply to the maker of tragedies also, if he is
an imitator and is in his nature three removes from the king and the truth,
as are all other imitators.” “It would seem
so.” “We are in agreement, then, about the imitator.
1 Cf. 587 C, Phaedr. 248 E, where the imitator is sixth in the scale.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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