Dialogue

1 Repub|      our guardians ought to be imitators; or rather, has not this
2 Repub|     them, we will speak of the imitators of philosophy, what manner
3 Repub|      therefore, like all other imitators, he is thrice removed from
4 Repub|      they may have come across imitators and been deceived by them;
5 Repub| beginning with Homer, are only imitators; they copy images of virtue
6 Repub|        or in heroic verse, are imitators in the highest degree? ~