Plato, Ion, section 531a

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[531a] 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.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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