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The Republic - Plato ยท 72 words
Let us now interrogate Homer and the poets. Friend Homer, say I to him, I am not going to ask you about medicine, or any art to which your poems incidentally refer, but about their main subjects war, military tactics, politics. If you are only twice and not thrice removed from the truth not an imitator or an image maker, please to inform us what good you have ever done to mankind.
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