Dialogue

 1   Ion|         prophet or pilot be the better judge? Ion is compelled
 2   Ion|       of his own particular art better than the rhapsode. He still
 3   Ion|      random from the crowd is a better interpreter of them than
 4   Ion|       able to speak about Homer better than any man; and that neither
 5   Ion| SOCRATES: And can you interpret better what Homer says, or what
 6   Ion|      you or a good prophet be a better interpreter of what these
 7   Ion|        SOCRATES: And Homer in a better way?~ION: He is incomparably
 8   Ion|         ION: He is incomparably better.~SOCRATES: And yet surely,
 9   Ion|        speaking, and one speaks better than the rest, there is
10   Ion|        speaking, and one speaks better than the rest, will he who
11   Ion|      will he who recognizes the better speaker be a different person
12   Ion|        thinking that I do speak better and have more to say about
13   Ion|         or the physician be the better judge of the propriety of
14   Ion|  SOCRATES: Then which will be a better judge of the lines which
15   Ion|         the art of medicine was better able to judge of the propriety
16   Ion| fisherman or of the rhapsode be better able to judge whether these
17   Ion|          who know Homer so much better than I do, Ion, select for
18   Ion|         to examine and judge of better than other men.~ION: All
19   Ion|        rhapsode ought to have a better memory.~ION: Why, what am
20   Ion|       that a rhapsode will know better than the pilot what the
21   Ion|       Or will the rhapsode know better than the physician what
22   Ion|          the rhapsode will know better than the cowherd what he