Dialogue

 1 Intro|      practice of introducing the poets, who ought not to be allowed,
 2 Intro|     Against the authority of the poets with whom Protagoras has
 3 Intro|          the Lacedaemonians. The poets, the Laconizers, and Protagoras
 4 Intro|   treatment in Plato both of the Poets and the Sophists, who are
 5 Intro|          the introduction of the poets as a substitute for original
 6 Intro|          claims advanced for the Poets by Protagoras; the mistake
 7 Intro|         of an interpreter of the Poets. The two latter personages
 8 Intro| discourses or citations from the poets. The second question, whether
 9 Intro|       contain discussions of the Poets, which offer a parallel
10  Prot|        names, some under that of poets, as Homer, Hesiod, and Simonides,
11  Prot|         hands the works of great poets, which he reads sitting
12  Prot|         poems of other excellent poets, who are the lyric poets;
13  Prot|         poets, who are the lyric poets; and these they set to music,
14  Prot|         what compositions of the poets are correct, and what are
15  Prot|         that. The talk about the poets seems to me like a commonplace
16  Prot|       another’s voice, or of the poets whom you cannot interrogate
17  Prot|      should imitate. Leaving the poets, and keeping to ourselves,