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δόξαν ὀρθήν. See IV 430 B note οὔτε -- πονηρίαν. The word εἰκασία, though not here used, represents the Imitator's state of mind: see on VI 511 E and App. I to Book VII. ὁ ἐν τῇ ποιήσει μιμητικός. Stallbaum remarks “cave unam poesim intelli gas”: but ποίησις is certainly ‘poetry’ and nothing else, as Schneider shews, throughout the whole of this episode. It is poetical μίμησις with which the discussion is primarily and chiefly concerned: hence this passing exclamation —for it is nothing more: witness the asyndeton. With χαρίεις (ironical, of course) followed by οὐ πάνυ, in which the irony disappears, cf. IV 426 A, B (J. and C.). <οὔκουν> χαρίεις (Richards) is an unnecessary conjecture. The reading μιμήσει for ποιήσει (q and some other MSS) is tautological and absurd.
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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