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1 Intro|   representations of the Comic poets, and in the opinion of the
2 Intro|   politicians, and then to the poets, and then to the craftsmen,
3 Intro| equally ridiculed by the Comic poets, and almost equally hateful
4 Text |     politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and
5 Text |     knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort
6 Text |       the meaning of them. The poets appeared to me to be much
7 Text |     into the same error as the poets;—because they were good
8 Text |       with me on behalf of the poets; Anytus, on behalf of the
9 Text |      well as to other dramatic poets.) (price of admission one