The Republic · ¶5283
Poets, the, love their poems as their own creation, 1. 330 C [cp. Symp. 209]; speak in parables, ib. 332 B (cp. 3. 413 B); on justice, 2. 363, 364, 365 E; bad teachers of youth, ib. 377; 3. 391, 392, 408 C [cp. Laws 10. 866 C, 890 A]; must be restrained by certain rules, 2. 379 foll.; 3. 398 A [cp. Laws 2. 656, 660 A; 4. 719]; banished from the state, 3. 398 A; 8. 568 B; 10. 595 foll., 605 A, 607 A [cp. Laws 7. 817]; poets and tyrants, 8. 568; thrice removed from the truth, 10. 596, 597, 598 E, 602 B, 605 C; imitators only, ib. 600, 601 (cp. 3. 393, and Laws 4. 719 C); poets and painters, 10. 601, 603, 605; —‘the poets who were children and prophets of the gods’ (? Orpheus and Musaeus; cp. supra 364 E), 2. 366 A.Read in context ›
Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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