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But what follows he delivers
as if he were himself Chryses and tries as far as may be to make us feel
that not Homer is the speaker, but the priest, an old man. And in this
manner he has carried in nearly all the rest of his narration about affairs
in Ilion, all that happened in
Ithaca, and the entire
Odyssey.” “Quite so,” he
said. “Now, it is narration, is it not, both when he presents the
several speeches and the matter between the speeches?”
“Of course.” “But when he delivers a speech
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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