Plato, Ion, section 541b

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[541b] is also a good general?

Ion
To be sure.

Socrates
And you are the best rhapsode in Greece?

Ion
Far the best, Socrates.

Socrates
Are you also, Ion, the best general in Greece?

Ion
Be sure of it, Socrates and that I owe to my study of Homer.

Socrates
Then how, in Heaven's name, can it be, Ion, that you, who are both the best general and the best rhapsode in Greece, go about performing as a rhapsode to the Greeks, but not as a general?

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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