Socrates. For you are a rhapsodist, and not a charioteer?
Ion. Yes.
Socrates. And the art of reciting verses is different from that of driving chariots?
Ion. Certainly.
Socrates. And if it is different, it supposes a knowledge of different things?
Ion. Certainly.
Socrates. And when Homer introduces Hecamede, the concubine of Nestor, giving Machaon a posset to drink, and he speaks thus:—
Οἴνῳ πραμνείῳ, φησίν· ἐπὶ δ’ αἴγειον κνῆ τυρὸν
Κνήστι χαλκείῃ· παρὰ δὲ κρόμιον ποτῷ ὄψον.
Il. λʹ. 639.