Plato, Ion, section 530a

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[530a]

Socrates
Welcome, Ion. Where have you come from now, to pay us this visit? From your home in Ephesus?

Ion
No, no, Socrates; from Epidaurus and the festival there of Asclepius.

Socrates
Do you mean to say that the Epidaurians honor the god with a contest of rhapsodes also?

Ion
Certainly, and of music¹ in general.

Socrates
Why then, you were competing in some contest, were you? And how went your competition?

Ion
We carried off the first prize, Socrates.

1 “Music” with the Greeks included poetry.

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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