Statesman by Plato. - HTML preview

62

Plato

YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.

STRANGER: There is surely no need to ask which STRANGER: The art of managing the walking ani-of these two contains the royal art, for it is evident mal has to be further divided, just as you might to everybody.

halve an even number.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Clearly.

STRANGER: Any one can divide the herds which STRANGER: Let me note that here appear in view feed on dry land?

two ways to that part or class which the argument aims at reaching,—the one a speedier way, which YOUNG SOCRATES: How would you divide them?

cuts off a small portion and leaves a large; the other agrees better with the principle which we were lay-STRANGER: I should distinguish between those ing down, that as far as we can we should divide in which fly and those which walk.

the middle; but it is longer. We can take either of them, whichever we please.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Most true.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Cannot we have both ways?

STRANGER: And where shall we look for the political animal? Might not an idiot, so to speak, know STRANGER: Together? What a thing to ask! but, that he is a pedestrian?

if you take them in turn, you clearly may.