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 1    I, 10|          Since then, which of the poets has not, on the authority
 2   II, 1 | philosophers, the peoples, or the poets. For he has made a threefold
 3   II, 1 |        the constant burden of the poets; the third, the gentile
 4   II, 1 |         own conjectures, when the poets have drawn their mythical
 5   II, 1 |          their variation with the poets all is worthless, because
 6   II, 3 |         the mythic section of the poets, yet, inasmuch as we must
 7   II, 7 |          OF THE MYTHIC CLASS. THE POETS A VERY POOR AUTHORITY IN
 8   II, 7 |     MATTERS. HOMER AND THE MYTHIC POETS. WHY IRRELIGIOUS.~But to
 9   II, 7 |        which we attributed to the poets, I hardly know whether I
10   II, 7 |          class of yours which the poets celebrate, how uncertain
11   II, 7 |         Plato was of opinion that poets ought to be banished, as
12   II, 7 |        And if you do believe your poets, how is it that you worship
13   II, 7 |    because you do not believe the poets, why do you bestow praise
14   II, 7 |         course, to be expected of poets. But when you say that they
15   II, 7 |           fact, put faith in your poets, when it is in accordance
16   II, 7 |      which women gave to him? The poets, no doubt, are liars. Yet
17   II, 9 |         the philosophers, nor the poets, nor the nations that we
18   II, 12|        produced for you, with the poets officiating as midwives.