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“Let us, then, conclude our return to the topic of poetry and
our apology, and affirm that we really had good grounds then for dismissing
her from our city, since such was her character. For reason constrained
us.1
And let us further say to her, lest she condemn us for harshness and
rusticity, that there is from of old a quarrel2 between philosophy and poetry. For such expressions as “‘the yelping hound barking at her
master and mighty in the idle babble”Unknown
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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