Dialogue

 1 Repub|    persuade us, if we refuse to listen to you? he said. ~Certainly
 2 Repub|        Then we are not going to listen; of that you may be assured. ~
 3 Repub|     that you will answer well. ~Listen, then, he said; I proclaim
 4 Repub|         said. ~Then we must not listen to Homer or to any other
 5 Repub| Adeimantus, our youth seriously listen to such unworthy representations
 6 Repub|      into our heads; for, if we listen to you, the husbandman will
 7 Repub|       will be easily induced to listen? ~Far otherwise. ~And even
 8 Repub|   counsel of the aged will they listen to them or receive them.
 9 Repub|      out. ~Very good, he said. ~Listen to me, then, or, rather,
10 Repub|          as I conceive, when we listen to a passage of Homer or
11 Repub|         human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit; for
12 Repub|    repeat to ourselves while we listen to her strains; that we
13 Repub|        which you make so light. Listen, then. ~I am attending. ~