Dialogue

 1 Intro|       contradiction. First the poet says,~‘Hard is it to become
 2  Prot|  sculptor, and that Homer is a poet; but what appellation is
 3  Prot| savages, for example, whom the poet Pherecrates exhibited on
 4  Prot|    reference to a passage of a poet. Now Simonides says to Scopas
 5  Prot|    reflected.~And does not the poet proceed to say, ‘I do not
 6  Prot|       this is said by the same poet.~I know it.~And do you think,
 7  Prot|        what the meaning of the poet really was. So I turned
 8  Prot|     said.~How so? I asked.~The poet, he replied, could never
 9  Prot|     may become bad, as another poet witnesses:—~‘The good are
10  Prot|       declaring, some that the poet has one meaning, and others