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and all things human pertaining to virtue and vice, and
all things divine? For the good poet, if he is to poetize things rightly,
must, they argue, create with knowledge or else be unable to create. So we
must consider whether these critics have not fallen in with such imitators
and been deceived by them, so that looking upon their works
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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