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Quotation from Ion by Plato
“For I must frankly confess that at the tale of pity my eyes are filled with tears, and when I speak of horrors, my hair stands on end and my heart throbs”
Ion, 535c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Ion describes the bodily effects of performance, which Socrates uses as evidence that he is not in his right mind while reciting.
Citation: "For I must frankly confess that at the tale of pity my eyes are filled with tears, and when I speak of horrors, my hair stands on end and my heart throbs" — Plato, Ion, 535c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-ion-q5)
