Plato, Ion, section 540a

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[540a]

Ion
Why, how am I forgetting?

Socrates
Do you not remember that you said that the art of the rhapsode was different from that of the charioteer?

Ion
I remember.

Socrates
And you also admitted that, being different, it would know different things?

Ion
Yes.

Socrates
Then by your own account the rhapsode's art cannot know everything, nor the rhapsode either.

Ion
Let us say, everything except those instances, Socrates.

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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