Dialogue

1   Ion| interpret better what Homer says, or what Hesiod says, about
2   Ion|  Homer says, or what Hesiod says, about these matters in
3   Ion|    the Muses, as he himself says. For in this way the God
4   Ion|   Tell me then, what Nestor says to Antilochus, his son,
5   Ion|      ION: ‘Bend gently,’ he says, ‘in the polished chariot
6   Ion|     Machaon a posset, as he says,~‘Made with Pramnian wine;
7   Ion|    SOCRATES: And when Homer says,~‘And she descended into
8   Ion|    of the house of Melampus says to the suitors:—~‘Wretched
9   Ion|  near the rampart, where he says:—~‘As they were eager to