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or any other of the poets on other matters by
asking them, if any one of them was a physician and not merely an imitator
of a physician's talk, what men any poet, old or new, is reported to have
restored to health as Asclepius did, or what disciples of the medical art he
left after him as Asclepius did his descendants; and let us dismiss the
other arts and not question them about them; but concerning the greatest and
finest things of which Homer undertakes to speak, wars and generalship1
1 Cf. Ion 541 A f.
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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