Plato, Ion, section 537c

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[537c] whether Homer speaks correctly or not in these lines?

Ion
A charioteer, of course.

Socrates
Because he has this art, or for some other reason?

Ion
No, because it is his art.

Socrates
And to every art has been apportioned by God a power of knowing a particular business? For I take it that what we know by the art of piloting we cannot also know by that of medicine.

Ion
No, to be sure.

Socrates
And what we know by medicine, we cannot by carpentry also?

Ion
No, indeed.

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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