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Socrates
Well done: so now, mind that we win too at the Panathenaea.1

Ion
Why, so we shall, God willing.

Socrates
I must say I have often envied you rhapsodes, Ion, for your art: for besides that it is fitting to your art that your person should be adorned and that you should look as handsome as possible, the necessity of being conversant with a number of good poets, and especially with Homer, the best and divinest poet of all, and of apprehending


1 The Athenian festival of the Great Panathenaea was held every fourth year, and the Small Panathenaea probably every year, about July.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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