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Logic IV. 41
The [Alcileiades?] I enlarges upon the advantage of recognizing our own ignorance a point made in the Meno. The [Jo?] developes an idea analogous to that of reminiscential knowledge of the Meno, namely that rhapsodists and poets are inspired. One can see that Plato's thought was running this way at that time. There is a good deal of fumor in the dialogue. The Menexanus is still more trivial having characterized the poets, he give a specimen of what the blatant rhetorician can discourse. Plato had carried in Megara now for six long years and had produced nothing but these ten dialogues, which at $10 per thousand words would not amount to much even if a magazine would print them. He now went to Egypt and thence at the invitation of Dionysius The Elder. This must have been between 392 and 390 BC the only years when Dionysius was at leisure until after Plato's return. A misunderstanding arose between the two but we cannon believe that Dionysius