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Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman
Cratylus: Hermogenes
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[384a] and am exerting myself to find out what in the world he means, he does not explain himself at all; he meets me with dissimulation, claiming to have some special knowledge of his own about it which would, if he chose to speak it out clearly, make me agree entirely with him. Now if you could interpret Cratylus's oracular speech, I should like to hear you; or rather, I should like still better to hear, if you please, what you yourself think about the correctness of names. Socrates
Hermogenes, son of Hipponicus, there is an ancient saying
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Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
770: prospoioumenos ti autos en heautôi dianoeisthai
Cross references from James Adam, The Republic of Plato:
2, 358D
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This text is based on the following book(s): Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. OCLC: 21777623, 26697110, 20083931 ISBN: 0674991850, 0674991370, 0674991826
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