Dialogue

 1 Repub|       he never had before; the tales of a world below and the
 2 Repub|    children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by
 3 Repub|     fashion the mind with such tales, even more fondly than they
 4 Repub|    must be discarded. ~Of what tales are you speaking? he said. ~
 5 Repub|        the gods in Homer-these tales must not be admitted into
 6 Repub|        most important that the tales which the young first hear
 7 Repub|        to be found and of what tales are you speaking-how shall
 8 Repub|        poets should cast their tales, and the limits which must
 9 Repub|       by them, but to make the tales is not their business. ~
10 Repub|        preventive; also in the tales of mythology, of which we
11 Repub|    principles of theology-some tales are to be told, and others
12 Repub|     narrators of this class of tales as well as over the others,
13 Repub|      let us put an end to such tales, lest they engender laxity
14 Repub| naturally deem them to be idle tales, for they see no sort of
15 Repub|     what a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped
16 Repub|     you a tale; not one of the tales which Odysseus tells to