STRANGER: The misfortune of too much haste, YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes, to be sure, I have seen which is too little speed.
them, and I have often heard the others described.
YOUNG SOCRATES: And all the better, STRANGER: And you may have heard also, and Stranger;—we got what we deserved.
may have been assured by report, although you have not travelled in those regions, of nurseries of geese STRANGER: Very well: Let us then begin again, and cranes in the plains of Thessaly?
and endeavour to divide the collective rearing of animals; for probably the completion of the argu-YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.
ment will best show what you are so anxious to know. Tell me, then—
STRANGER: I asked you, because here is a new division of the management of herds, into the man-YOUNG SOCRATES: What?
agement of land and of water herds.
STRANGER: Have you ever heard, as you very YOUNG SOCRATES: There is.
likely may—for I do not suppose that you ever actually visited them—of the preserves of fishes in STRANGER: And do you agree that we ought to the Nile, and in the ponds of the Great King; or divide the collective rearing of herds into two cor-you may have seen similar preserves in wells at responding parts, the one the rearing of water, and home?
the other the rearing of land herds?
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