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 1       I|     been esteemed wise, not poets alone, but also philosophers,
 2      II|           CHAPTER II -- THE POETS ARE UNFIT TO BE RELIGIOUS
 3      II|   teachers of religion? The poets? It will do your cause no
 4      II|  say so to men who know the poets; for they know how very
 5      II| distinguished and prince of poets. For he says, first, that
 6      II|     your most distinguished poets, who have given the genealogies
 7     III|   if you decline citing the poets, because you say it is allowable
 8     III| quotes the opinions of your poets about the gods. Therefore,
 9     III|    than the theology of the poets. For Thales of Miletus,
10      IX|    teachers, whether sages, poets, historians, philosophers,
11      IX|  Inachus, whom some of your poets suppose to have been earth-born,
12      XI|  formerly you abandoned the poets, you will turn to the deceit
13     XII|   would make mention of old poets, or legislators, or historians,
14  XXXVII|  the Sibyl. For, unlike the poets who, after their poems are