Dialogue

 1 Repub|              words is only a kind of imitation and shadowy image of a previous
 2 Repub|           either simple narration or imitation, or a union of the two?
 3 Repub|             voice or gesture, is the imitation of the person whose character
 4 Repub|            said to proceed by way of imitation? ~Very true. ~Or, if the
 5 Repub|              himself, then again the imitation is dropped, and his poetry
 6 Repub|           words would have been, not imitation, but simple narration. The
 7 Repub|            what parts; or should all imitation be prohibited? ~You mean,
 8 Repub|              this is equally true of imitation; no one man can imitate
 9 Repub|             even when two species of imitation are nearly allied, the same
10 Repub|  illiberality or baseness, lest from imitation they should come to be what
11 Repub|              ashamed of this sort of imitation: he will be most ready to
12 Repub|           entire art will consist in imitation of voice and gesture, and
13 Repub|         panharmonic music is only an imitation of the flute? ~Clearly not. ~
14 Repub|            replied; they are only an imitation. ~He said: Who then are
15 Repub|             seen only a conventional imitation of philosophy, consisting
16 Repub| contradicting and refuting others in imitation of those who refute them;
17 Repub|      question. ~Can you tell me what imitation is? for I really do not
18 Repub|           painting designed to be-an imitation of things as they are, or
19 Repub|          knowledge and ignorance and imitation. ~Most true. ~And so, when
20 Repub|  image-making branch? Would he allow imitation to be the ruling principle
21 Repub|      mentioning of what he imitates. Imitation is only a kind of play or
22 Repub|               I conjure you, has not imitation been shown by us to be concerned
23 Repub|              faculty in man to which imitation is addressed? ~What do you
24 Repub|             painting or drawing, and imitation in general, when doing their
25 Repub|          faculty with which poetical imitation is concerned is good or
26 Repub|             state the question thus: Imitation imitates the actions of
27 Repub|             variety of materials for imitation? Whereas the wise and calm
28 Repub|         friend and the sister art of imitation, that if she will only prove