Dialogue

 1   Ion|    knows the superior ought to know the inferior also;—he who
 2   Ion|      not he who knows the good know the bad speaker also? For
 3   Ion|       also? For if he does not know the bad, neither will he
 4   Ion|       the bad, neither will he know the good when the same topic
 5   Ion|        speaker, you would also know the inferior speakers to
 6   Ion|     SOCRATES: And did you ever know any one who was skilful
 7   Ion|      SOCRATES: Or did you ever know of any one in sculpture,
 8   Ion|      that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not
 9   Ion|      arrives.~SOCRATES: Do you know that the spectator is the
10   Ion|      poet you go to sleep, and know not what to say; but when
11   Ion|        work; for that which we know by the art of the pilot
12   Ion|     art of the pilot we do not know by the art of medicine?~
13   Ion|       not.~SOCRATES: Nor do we know by the art of the carpenter
14   Ion|        carpenter that which we know by the art of medicine?~
15   Ion|        the arts;—that which we know with one art we do not know
16   Ion|    know with one art we do not know with the other? But let
17   Ion|      knowledge. For example, I know that here are five fingers,
18   Ion|      are five fingers, and you know the same. And if I were
19   Ion|       ION: True.~SOCRATES: You know the passage in which Hecamede,
20   Ion|     the fisherman, do you, who know Homer so much better than
21   Ion|      of the rhapsode, will not know everything?~ION: I should
22   Ion|     other arts. As he does not know all of them, which of them
23   Ion|    them, which of them will he know?~ION: He will know what
24   Ion|     will he know?~ION: He will know what a man and what a woman
25   Ion|      mean that a rhapsode will know better than the pilot what
26   Ion|        ION: No; the pilot will know best.~SOCRATES: Or will
27   Ion| SOCRATES: Or will the rhapsode know better than the physician
28   Ion|     not.~SOCRATES: But he will know what a slave ought to say?~
29   Ion|     cowherd; the rhapsode will know better than the cowherd
30   Ion|     not.~SOCRATES: But he will know what a spinning-woman ought
31   Ion|  SOCRATES: At any rate he will know what a general ought to
32   Ion|       rhapsode will be sure to know.~SOCRATES: Well, but is
33   Ion|        I am sure that I should know what a general ought to
34   Ion|       lyre: and then you would know when horses were well or
35   Ion|      of which art, Ion, do you know whether horses are well