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grbs-11441	De Lacy, Philip	Galen and the Greek Poets	1966	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3483	146	65	We may conclude that Galen has aligned himself with Plutarch in measuring poets by the yardstick of truth and finding them deficient. Poets deliberately introduce falsehoods, or fictions, into their poems, because their aim is to please; and the truth is often painful, whereas nothing is so pleasant as a well-contrived fable (16B).	cache/grbs-11441.pdf	txt/grbs-11441.txt