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 1 Pre |     poets:—the remark that the poet, who is of a reserved disposition,
 2 Text|       He must have been a wise poet, Alcibiades, who, seeing
 3 Text|      In my opinion, I say, the poet spoke both well and prudently;
 4 Text|      apply to him in which the poet blamed his enemy:—~‘...Full
 5 Text|  Socrates, do the words of the poet apply to him? They seem
 6 Text|      my sweet friend: only the poet is talking in riddles after
 7 Text|    wisdom to discover what the poet would be at. You surely
 8 Text|     metre will suffer, but the poet’s meaning is clear;—‘Margites
 9 Text|      SOCRATES: And was not the poet whose words I originally
10 Text| whether from admiration of the poet or because they have discovered