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“Why, yes, that is the tradition,” said I;
“but do you suppose, Glaucon, that, if Homer had really been able
to educate men1 and make them better and had possessed not the art of imitation
but real knowledge, he would not have acquired many companions and been
honored and loved by them? But are we to believe that while Protagoras2 of Abdera and Prodicus3 of Ceos and many others are able by private teaching
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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