[605c]
that cannot
distinguish the greater from the less, but calls the same thing now one, now
the other.” “By all means.”“But we have not yet brought our chief accusation
against it. Its power to corrupt, with rare exceptions, even the better sort
is surely the chief cause for alarm.” “How could it be
otherwise, if it really does that?” “ Listen and
reflect. I think you know that the very best of us, when we hear Homer1 or
some other of the makers of tragedy
1 Cf. p. 420, note a, on 595 B-C.
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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