Dialogue

1   Ion| especially of Homer, who is the best and most divine of them;
2   Ion|      worst of poets he sang the best of songs? Am I not right,
3   Ion|         obliged to give my very best attention to them; for if
4   Ion|         No; the pilot will know best.~SOCRATES: Or will the rhapsode
5   Ion|       SOCRATES: And you are the best of Hellenic rhapsodes?~ION:
6   Ion|         rhapsodes?~ION: Far the best, Socrates.~SOCRATES: And
7   Ion|       SOCRATES: And are you the best general, Ion?~ION: To be
8   Ion|     reason why you, who are the best of generals as well as the
9   Ion|         generals as well as the best of rhapsodes in all Hellas,