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 1 Intro|        by the authority of the poets; secondly upon the benefits
 2 Intro|     wisdom and virtue, such as poets and other creators have
 3 Intro|      as ridiculed by the Comic poets; and in the New Comedy the
 4 Intro|       in the Lyric and Elegiac poets; and in mythology ‘the greatest
 5 Intro|     the exception of the Comic poets (whose business was to raise
 6 Text |        encomiast among all the poets who are so many. There are
 7 Text |        art, as our friends the poets here tell us, and I believe
 8 Text |        masters of arts are all poets or makers.’ ‘Very true.’ ‘
 9 Text |       that they are not called poets, but have other names; only
10 Text |   sense of the word are called poets.’ ‘Very true,’ I said. ‘
11 Text | general. And such creators are poets and all artists who are
12 Text |     and Hesiod and other great poets, would not rather have their