Dialogue

1  Prot|      his beard? Are you not of Homer’s opinion, who says~‘Youth
2  Prot|        is a sculptor, and that Homer is a poet; but what appellation
3  Prot|   perfect order.~After him, as Homer says (Od.), ‘I lifted up
4  Prot|        under that of poets, as Homer, Hesiod, and Simonides,
5  Prot|    like the river Scamander in Homer, who, when beleaguered by
6  Prot| difficulties. For I think that Homer was very right in saying