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the god is a composer so accomplished that he is a cause of composing in others: every one, you know, becomes a poet, ““though alien to the Muse before,””1 when Love gets hold of him. This we may fitly take for a testimony that Love is a poet well skilled—I speak summarily—in all composing that has to do with music;
1 Eur. Sthen. Fr. 663
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.
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