Dialogue

 1   Ion|    he who knows the superior ought to know the inferior also;—
 2   Ion|    of poetry by rules of art ought to be able to judge of all
 3   Ion|   the poet. For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of
 4   Ion|     Socrates; and you really ought to hear how exquisitely
 5   Ion|      of which the excellence ought to be judged by the prophet
 6   Ion|  should say that the prophet ought to consider and determine.~
 7   Ion|       and which the rhapsode ought to examine and judge of
 8   Ion|      were saying? A rhapsode ought to have a better memory.~
 9   Ion|  what a man and what a woman ought to say, and what a freeman
10   Ion|     freeman and what a slave ought to say, and what a ruler
11   Ion| ruler of a sea-tossed vessel ought to say?~ION: No; the pilot
12   Ion|      the ruler of a sick man ought to say?~ION: He will not.~
13   Ion|    he will know what a slave ought to say?~ION: Yes.~SOCRATES:
14   Ion|     than the cowherd what he ought to say in order to soothe
15   Ion|   know what a spinning-woman ought to say about the working
16   Ion|     will know what a general ought to say when exhorting his
17   Ion|   should know what a general ought to say.~SOCRATES: Why, yes,