reason taken away, and become the servants of the gods. It is not
they who, bereft of their reason, speak in such sublime strains, it
is the god who speaks to us, and speaks through them." George
Grote, from whose volumes on Plato I quote this translation of the
passage, placed "Ion" among the genuine dialogues of Plato.

{73} Guards, trimmings or facings.

{74} The Second Summary.

{75} Causes of Defect in English Poetry.

{76} From the invocation at the opening of Virgil's AEneid (line
12), "Muse, bring to my mind the causes of these things: what
divinity was injured . . . that one famous for piety should suffer
thus."

{77} The Chancellor, Michel de l'Hopital, born in 1505, who joined
to his great political services (which included the keeping of the
Inquisition out of France, and long labour to repress civil war)
great skill in verse. He died in 1573.

{78} Whose heart-strings the Titan (Prometheus) fastened with a
better clay. (Juvenal, Sat. xiv. 35). Dryden translated the line,
with its context -

"Some sons, indeed, some very few, we see
Who keep themselves from this infection free,
Whom gracious Heaven for nobler ends designed,
Their looks erected, and their clay refined."