Dialogue

 1 Craty|         in the dialogue which is called after him.~Between these
 2 Craty|       adversaries: Ouranos is so called apo tou oran ta ano, which,
 3 Craty|       then a man will be rightly called a horse by me, and a man
 4 Craty|       son had two names—~‘Hector called him Scamandrius, but the
 5 Craty|       Astyanax’?~Now, if the men called him Astyanax, is it not
 6 Craty|         explanation;—the boy was called Astyanax (‘king of the city’),
 7 Craty|          the lion’s whelp may be called a lion, or the horse’s foal
 8 Craty|         the son of a king may be called a king. But if the horse
 9 Craty|         calf, then that would be called a calf. Whether the syllables
10 Craty|    begotten of Uranus, who is so called apo tou oran ta ano, from
11 Craty|       and demi-gods. Gods are so called, apo tou thein, from the
12 Craty|           but good; and they are called demons, quasi daemones,
13 Craty|          or rhetoricians, and so called apo tou erotan, or eirein,
14 Craty|     wants there, and hence he is called Pluto or the rich. He will
15 Craty|         diviner, Aplos, as he is called in the Thessalian dialect (
16 Craty|    destruction. The Muses are so called—apo tou mosthai. The gentle
17 Craty|    forget (lethe). Artemis is so called from her healthy well-balanced
18 Craty|        brother of speech, and is called Pan because speech indicates
19 Craty|          us to see that he is so called because at his rising he
20 Craty|    dithyrambic name.’ Meis is so called apo tou meiousthai, from
21 Craty|     beauty, is therefore rightly called the beautiful. The meaning
22 Craty|          call emera was formerly called imera; and this shows the
23 Craty|          foreign word, and is so called apo tou algeinou: odune
24 Craty|          anciently esros, and so called because it flows into (esrei)
25 Craty|       our own minds,’ such as is called forth, not by familiar mental
26 Craty|         him, is that which he is called. To this he replies—‘If
27 Craty|       that a man will be rightly called a horse by me individually,
28 Craty|        individually, and rightly called a man by the rest of the
29 Craty|     horse again would be rightly called a man by me and a horse
30 Craty|         Might not that be justly called the true or ideal shuttle?~
31 Craty|         know that he ought to be called Xanthus and not Scamander—
32 Craty|         says that the Trojan men called him Astyanax (king of the
33 Craty|        the city); but if the men called him Astyanax, the other
34 Craty|       the son of a king is to be called a king. And whether the
35 Craty|       religious father should be called irreligious?~HERMOGENES:
36 Craty|       SOCRATES: He should not be called Theophilus (beloved of God)
37 Craty|        who appears to be rightly called; whether chance gave the
38 Craty|     think that Atreus is rightly called; for his murder of Chrysippus
39 Craty|      name implies, he is rightly called Pelops who sees what is
40 Craty|   begotten of Uranus, rightly so called (apo tou oran ta ano) from
41 Craty| deceptive because they are often called after ancestors with whose
42 Craty|         running nature they were called Gods or runners (Theous,
43 Craty|        entire conviction that he called them demons, because they
44 Craty|        and death, and is rightly called a demon.~HERMOGENES: Then
45 Craty|          you tell me why men are called anthropoi?—that is more
46 Craty|          I am not mistaken, they called psyche. But please stay
47 Craty|         we term ousia is by some called esia, and by others again
48 Craty|      essence of things should be called estia, which is akin to
49 Craty|         and is therefore rightly called osia. Enough of this, which
50 Craty|     Pluto, whether the latter is called by that or by his other
51 Craty|          go on, and therefore he called the ruler of this element
52 Craty|      down there; wherefore he is called Pluto (or the rich). Note
53 Craty|   Hermogenes, and the legislator called him Hades, not from the
54 Craty|         the Goddess may be truly called Pherepaphe (Pherepapha),
55 Craty|          them, he may be rightly called Apolouon (purifier); or
56 Craty|      truth, he may be most fitly called Aplos, from aplous (sincere),
57 Craty|      poles of heaven as they are called, or in the harmony of song,
58 Craty| enquiries (mosthai); and Leto is called by this name, because she
59 Craty|        be Letho, as she is often called by strangers—they seem to
60 Craty|       Didoinusos, as he might be called in fun,—and oinos is properly
61 Craty|        thought a nicer form, and called her Athene.~HERMOGENES:
62 Craty|      Ares?~SOCRATES: Ares may be called, if you will, from his manhood (
63 Craty|        also appears to have been called from the verb ‘to tell’ (
64 Craty|        of all things, is rightly called aipolos (goat-herd), he
65 Craty|         moon is not unfrequently called selanaia.~HERMOGENES: True.~
66 Craty|        SOCRATES: Meis (month) is called from meiousthai (to lessen),
67 Craty|       for the earth may be truly called ‘mother’ (gaia, genneteira),
68 Craty|     about them; they are rightly called the orai because they divide (
69 Craty|      admirable part of nature is called agathon. Dikaiosune (justice)
70 Craty|          diaion) all, is rightly called dikaion; the letter k is
71 Craty|       that justice is rightly so called because partaking of the
72 Craty|      hindrance, and is therefore called arete, or, more correctly,
73 Craty|           Is not mind that which called (kalesan) things by their
74 Craty|   SOCRATES: Then mind is rightly called beauty because she does
75 Craty|          upon this principle are called sumphora or sumpheronta,
76 Craty|          cherdaleon (gainful) is called from cherdos (gain), but
77 Craty|          very ancient times they called the day either imera or
78 Craty|        emera (short e), which is called by us emera (long e).~HERMOGENES:
79 Craty|       darkness, and is therefore called imera, from imeros, desire.~
80 Craty|        who imagine the day to be called emera because it makes things
81 Craty|      grievous); odune (grief) is called from the putting on (endusis)
82 Craty|          terpsis (delight) is so called from the pleasure creeping (
83 Craty|        soul; thumos (passion) is called from the rushing (thuseos)
84 Craty|       present; eros (love) is so called because flowing in (esron)
85 Craty|          and from flowing in was called esros (influx) in the old
86 Craty|        omicron for omega, and is called eros, now that omega is
87 Craty|         being, which is likewise called not going (oukion or ouki
88 Craty|       What will this imitator be called?~HERMOGENES: I imagine,
89 Craty|      form syllables, as they are called, and from syllables make
90 Craty|          this artist of names is called the legislator?~CRATYLUS:
91 Craty|         are aware, that which is called by us sklerotes, is by the
92 Craty|   sklerotes, is by the Eretrians called skleroter.~CRATYLUS: Very