Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|      begins.~First, invoking the Muses and assuming ironically
 2 Phaedr|        or the inspiration of the Muses (compare Ion), without which
 3 Phaedr|       may carry our words to the Muses, who are their patronesses;
 4 Phaedr| themselves in a world before the Muses, and when the Muses came
 5 Phaedr|          the Muses, and when the Muses came they died of hunger
 6 Phaedr|      grasshoppers who inform the Muses in heaven about those who
 7 Phaedr|     please.~SOCRATES: Come, O ye Muses, melodious, as ye are called,
 8 Phaedr|         who are possessed by the Muses; which taking hold of a
 9 Phaedr|           having no touch of the Muses’ madness in his soul, comes
10 Phaedr|      beings in an age before the Muses. And when the Muses came
11 Phaedr|          the Muses. And when the Muses came and song appeared they
12 Phaedr|          is the return which the Muses make to them—they neither
13 Phaedr|       die they go and inform the Muses in heaven who honours them
14 Phaedr|         lovers, and of the other Muses for those who do them honour,
15 Phaedr|          them; for these are the Muses who are chiefly concerned
16 Phaedr|     perhaps, the prophets of the Muses who are singing over our
17 Phaedr|  Dionysus, the third that of the Muses, the fourth that of Aphrodite