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Quotation from Ion by Plato

“Then you are the interpreters of interpreters”

Plato (spoken by Socrates)

Ion, 535a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Having called poets the interpreters of the gods, Socrates places the rhapsode one step further down the chain.

Citation: "Then you are the interpreters of interpreters" — Plato, Ion, 535a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-ion-q4)

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