Dialogue

1 Repub|           begin by telling children stories which, though not wholly
2 Repub|          main fictitious; and these stories are told them when they
3 Repub| storytellers of mankind. ~But which stories do you mean, he said; and
4 Repub|          blamable; but what are the stories which you mean? ~First of
5 Repub|            Why, yes, said he, those stories are extremely objectionable. ~
6 Repub|           Yes, Adeimantus, they are stories not to be repeated in our
7 Repub|           said; in my opinion those stories are quite unfit to be repeated. ~
8 Repub|             say that these horrible stories may not have a use of some
9 Repub|           poets, in narrating their stories, are to be allowed by us