Plato, Ion, section 537b

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[537b] “and goad him on, while your hand slackens his reins. And at the post let your left-hand horse swerve close, so that the nave of the well-wrought wheel may seem to come up to the edge of the stone, which yet avoid to touch.” Hom. Il. 23.335 ff.

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Enough. Now, Ion, will a doctor or a charioteer be the better judge

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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