Behind the politeness of these words is the quiet ferocity of a confident moral conviction that the arguments about poetry set out in Books II and III have the status and force of binding civic law.

在这些词句的礼貌背后， 是一种自信的道德信念的无声凶猛， 即第二卷和第三卷中关于诗歌的论点具有约束公民法的地位和力量。