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| εἰ γὰρ Ὅμηρος εἰπὼν ὅτι ἦλθεν ὁ Χρύσης τῆς τε θυγατρὸς λύτρα φέρων καὶ ἱκέτης τῶν Ἀχαιῶν, μάλιστα δὲ τῶν βασιλέων, μετὰ τοῦτο μὴ ὡς Χρύσης γενόμενος ἔλεγεν ἀλλ’ ἔτι ὡς Ὅμηρος, οἶσθ’ ὅτι οὐκ ἂν μίμησις ἦν ἀλλὰ ἁπλῆ διήγησις. |
| "If Homer, once he had told us that Chryses had come with the ransom for his daughter, as a suppliant of the Achaeans and in particular the kings, if after that he had continued to speak not as Chryses but still as Homer, you realise that it would not be imitation but simple narration." |
| Plato Republic 3 393d |
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