Plato, Ion, section 537a

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[537a]

Socrates
Why, does not Homer speak a good deal about arts, in a good many places? For instance, about chariot-driving: if I can recall the lines, I will quote them to you.

Ion
No, I will recite them, for I can remember.

Socrates
Tell me then what Nestor says to his son Antilochus, advising him to be careful about the turning-post in the horse-race in honor of Patroclus.

Ion
“Bend thyself in the polished car slightly to the left of them;¹ and call to the right-hand horse
”

1 i.e. one of the two white stones, set up at each end of the course, which had been mentioned six lines before.

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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