Note 9 — Early Poems (continued 4)

Cf. Plato, Phaedo, x.:—ἆρα ἔχει ἀληθειάν τινα ὄψις τε καὶ ἀκοὴ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. ἤ τά γε τοιᾶυτα καὶ οἱ ποἱηταὶ ἡμὶν ἄει θρυλοῦσιν ὅτι οὐτ ακούομεν ἀκριβὲς οὐδὲν οὔτε ὁρῶμεν. “Have sight and hearing any truth in them? Are they not, as poets are always telling us, inaccurate witnesses?” “Have sight and hearing any truth in them? Are they not, as poets are always telling us, inaccurate witnesses?” The proper commentary on the whole of this passage is Plato passim, but the Phaedo particularly, cf. Republic, vii., viii. and xiv.-xv.