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Quotation from Protagoras by Plato
“Leaving the poets, and keeping to ourselves, let us try the mettle of one another and make proof of the truth in conversation”
Protagoras, Stephanus 348a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
After his playful reading of Simonides, Socrates compares quarrels over poets to hiring flute-girls at a drinking party and calls for direct examination.
Citation: "Leaving the poets, and keeping to ourselves, let us try the mettle of one another and make proof of the truth in conversation" — Plato, Protagoras, Stephanus 348a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-protagoras-q5)
