Dialogue

 1 Repub|        must have learnt out of Homer; for he, speaking of Autolycus,
 2 Repub|     perjury." ~And so, you and Homer and Simonides are agreed
 3 Repub|        of the noble Hesiod and Homer, the first of whom says
 4 Repub|     are provided for them. And Homer has a very similar strain;
 5 Repub|       uphill road: then citing Homer as a witness that the gods
 6 Repub|    said, which are narrated by Homer and Hesiod, and the rest
 7 Repub|     Then we must not listen to Homer or to any other poet who
 8 Repub|    although we are admirers of Homer, we do not admire the lying
 9 Repub|       moved." ~And we must beg Homer and the other poets not
10 Repub|      we will once more entreat Homer and the other poets not
11 Repub|        the various modes which Homer has delineated. Nor should
12 Repub|      about the gods as that of Homer when he describes how ~"
13 Repub| language as that of Diomede in Homer, ~"Friend sit still and
14 Repub|       can be approved. ~Loving Homer as I do, I hardly like to
15 Repub|        that the speaker is not Homer, but the aged priest himself.
16 Repub|   change might be effected. If Homer had said, "The priest came,
17 Repub|        have illustrated out of Homer, that is to say, his style
18 Repub|    meaning may be learned from Homer; he, you know, feeds his
19 Repub|       are nowhere mentioned in Homer. In proscribing them, however,
20 Repub|   after he has been wounded in Homer, drinks a posset of Pramnian
21 Repub|    more appeal to the words of Homer, which have been already
22 Repub|       soul;" for in this verse Homer has clearly supposed the
23 Repub|  manner in which, according to Homer, brave youths should be
24 Repub|          Then in this, I said, Homer shall be our teacher; and
25 Repub|       when existing among men, Homer calls the form and likeness
26 Repub|    them? Would he not say with Homer, ~"Better to be the poor
27 Repub|        we, after the manner of Homer, pray the muses to tell
28 Repub|   youth had an awe and love of Homer, which even now makes the
29 Repub|       that the tragedians, and Homer, who is at their head, know
30 Repub|      we must put a question to Homer; not about medicine, or
31 Repub|        him about them. "Friend Homer," then we say to him, "if
32 Repub|  nothing of the kind. ~But, if Homer never did any public service,
33 Repub|   Creophylus, the companion of Homer, that child of flesh, whose
34 Repub|     stupidity, if, as is said, Homer was greatly neglected by
35 Repub|      imagine, Glaucon, that if Homer had really been able to
36 Repub|     that the contemporaries of Homer, or again of Hesiod, would
37 Repub|    individuals, beginning with Homer, are only imitators; they
38 Repub|      we listen to a passage of Homer or one of the tragedians,
39 Repub|        any of the eulogists of Homer declaring that he has been
40 Repub|      ready to acknowledge that Homer is the greatest of poets
41 Repub| especially when she appears in Homer? ~Yes, indeed, I am greatly
42 Repub|     saying, are to be found in Homer and Hesiod; but justice