Dialogue

 1   Ion| Socrates is of opinion that a man must be mad who behaves
 2   Ion| compelled to admit that every man will judge of his own particular
 3   Ion|  greatly to be envied. And no man can be a rhapsode who does
 4   Ion|   about Homer better than any man; and that neither Metrodorus
 5   Ion|   wise; whereas I am a common man, who only speak the truth.
 6   Ion|   have said—a thing which any man might say: that when a man
 7   Ion|    man might say: that when a man has acquired a knowledge
 8   Ion|    about Homer than any other man. But I do not speak equally
 9   Ion|     not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work
10   Ion|       what are we to say of a man who at a sacrifice or festival,
11   Ion|     he pleases, and makes one man hang down from another.
12   Ion|      ION: He will know what a man and what a woman ought to
13   Ion|      what the ruler of a sick man ought to say?~ION: He will