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but for the moment, please answer this little question: are you skilled in Homer only, or in Hesiod and Archilochus as well?Ion
No, no, only in Homer; for that seems to me quite enough.Socrates
And is there anything on which Homer and Hesiod both say the same?Ion
Yes, I think there are many such cases.Socrates
Then in those cases would you expound better what Homer says than what Hesiod says?Ion
I should do it equally well in those cases, Socrates, where they say the same.
No, no, only in Homer; for that seems to me quite enough.Socrates
And is there anything on which Homer and Hesiod both say the same?Ion
Yes, I think there are many such cases.Socrates
Then in those cases would you expound better what Homer says than what Hesiod says?Ion
I should do it equally well in those cases, Socrates, where they say the same.