PLATO, ION 531a
SOCRATES: Indeed, I will make time to hear you out, but tell me this: are you good at reciting Homer alone, or are you also good at Hesiod and Pindar?
ION: Not in the least – I am good at reciting Homer alone. That seems enough to me.
ΣΩ. Καὶ μὴν ἐγὼ ἔτι ποιήσομαι σχολὴν ἀκροάσασθαί
σου, νῦν δέ μοι τοσόνδε ἀπόκριναι· πότερον περὶ ῾Ομήρου
μόνον δεινὸς εἶ ἢ καὶ περὶ ῾Ησιόδου καὶ ᾿Αρχιλόχου;
ΙΩΝ. Οὐδαμῶς, ἀλλὰ περὶ ῾Ομήρου μόνον· ἱκανὸν γάρ
μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι.
I enjoy your site immensely. It must take a lot of work to maintain.
One minor cavil–the Greek has Socrates asking about Hesiod and Archilochus not Hesiod and Pindar.
That is true! Sorry about that!
Thanks for catching that! I was putting this up in something of a hurry, and I must have had Pindar on the mind. Perhaps I was drinking water.