Initiated now into the gloomy secrets of a family, sharing the anguish of a Christian Niobe, sad with her sadness, my soul darkened, I saw the valley in the tone of my own thoughts.

现在开始进入一个家庭的阴暗秘密，分享一个基督徒尼奥贝的痛苦，为她的悲伤而悲伤，我的灵魂变得黑暗，我在自己的思想中看到了山谷。

The chief objection to poetry, particularly tragedy—which is first explicitly mentioned on 379a, and Aeschylus's no longer extant " Sorrows of Niobe" is quoted on 380a—is that it misrepresents or " images badly" the nature of the gods and heroes.

对诗歌的主要反对意见， 尤其是悲剧——在 379a 中首次明确提及，并且在 380a 中引用了埃斯库罗斯已不复存在的《尼俄伯之悲》——是它歪曲或“糟糕地描绘” 了众神和英雄的本性。