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1 1|      you, Cleinias, believe, as Homer tells, that every ninth
2 2|      exhibitions: one man, like Homer, will exhibit a rhapsody,
3 3| government which is declared by Homer to have prevailed among
4 3|          The form which in fact Homer indicates as following the
5 4|         of such a practice from Homer, by whom Odysseus is introduced,
6 9|       And is it disgraceful for Homer and Tyrtaeus and other poets