Plato, Ion, section 532a

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[532a] both who speaks well and who badly: otherwise, if he is not going to distinguish the bad speaker, clearly he will not distinguish the good one either, where the subject is the same.

Ion
That is so.

Socrates
And the same man is found to be skilled in both?

Ion
Yes.

Socrates
And you say that Homer and the other poets, among whom are Hesiod and Archilochus, all speak about the same things, only not similarly; but the one does it well, and the rest worse?

Ion
Yes, and what I say is true.

Socrates
And since you distinguish the good speaker,

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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