Dialogue

 1 Craty|       insight into the nature of men and things, and yet hardly
 2 Craty|        there are a few very good men in the world, and a great
 3 Craty|         and always belong to all men; in that case, again, there
 4 Craty| distinction between bad and good men. But then, the only remaining
 5 Craty|    natural instrument with which men cut or burn, and any other
 6 Craty|          names given by Gods and men to the same things, as in
 7 Craty|       the Gods call Xanthus, and men call Scamander;’ or in the
 8 Craty|         Gods call ‘Chalcis,’ and men ‘Cymindis;’ or the hill
 9 Craty|     Cymindis;’ or the hill which men call ‘Batieia,’ and the
10 Craty|    others Astyanax’?~Now, if the men called him Astyanax, is
11 Craty|      wiser or the less wise, the men or the women? Homer evidently
12 Craty|        evidently agreed with the men: and of the name given by
13 Craty|     Those of heroes and ordinary men are often deceptive, because
14 Craty|       was used for daimones—good men are well said to become
15 Craty|         God saw the daughters of men that they were fair;’ or
16 Craty|     which we propitiate them, as men say in prayers, ‘May he
17 Craty|        eidenai) all good things. Men in general are foolishly
18 Craty|          to do with the souls of men while in the body, because
19 Craty|       rising he gathers (alizei) men together, or because he
20 Craty|       opinion is, that primitive men were like some modern philosophers,
21 Craty|      probably have argued, could men devoid of art have contrived
22 Craty|   society in which the circle of men’s minds was narrower and
23 Craty|          voluntary. Not only can men utter a cry or call, but
24 Craty|       again echoes to the sense; men find themselves capable
25 Craty|          by which the efforts of men to utter articulate sounds
26 Craty|        human frame.~The minds of men are sometimes carried on
27 Craty|         of which the thoughts of men are the accident. Such a
28 Craty|         among different races of men. It may have been slower
29 Craty|         cities first existed and men were citizens of them?~CLEINIAS:
30 Craty|      mythology to mean only that men thought the gods to be the
31 Craty|   barbaric genius who taught the men of his tribe to sing or
32 Craty|        who formed the manners of men and gave them customs, whose
33 Craty|   imitated by them,—the ‘king of men’ who was their priest, almost
34 Craty|         the superficial forms of men and animals or in the leaves
35 Craty|        of them, in proportion as men are isolated or united by
36 Craty|       instinct to him. Primitive men learnt to speak from one
37 Craty|        analogy opens the eyes of men to discern the similarities
38 Craty|          a time they are seen by men to reach farther down into
39 Craty|          hand and on the left by men, de, alla, kaitoi, kai de
40 Craty|     abstract ideas as well as to men and animals no doubt lends
41 Craty|         of the human voice which men agree to use; but that there
42 Craty|          that there are very bad men, and a good many of them.~
43 Craty|     things equally belong to all men at the same moment and always;
44 Craty|    speaking? for in giving names men speak.~HERMOGENES: That
45 Craty|   different names which Gods and men give to the same things.
46 Craty|       the Gods call Xanthus, and men call Scamander.’~HERMOGENES:
47 Craty|       The Gods call Chalcis, and men Cymindis:’~to be taught
48 Craty|      Compare Il. ‘The hill which men call Batieia and the immortals
49 Craty|    course.~SOCRATES: And are the men or the women of a city,
50 Craty|    HERMOGENES: I should say, the men.~SOCRATES: And Homer, as
51 Craty|       know, says that the Trojan men called him Astyanax (king
52 Craty|         of the city); but if the men called him Astyanax, the
53 Craty|       The names of heroes and of men in general are apt to be
54 Craty|      Theous, Theontas); and when men became acquainted with the
55 Craty|        not demons and heroes and men come next?~SOCRATES: Demons!
56 Craty|       speaks of a golden race of men who came first?~HERMOGENES:
57 Craty|        ills, guardians of mortal men.’ (Hesiod, Works and Days.)~
58 Craty|      that he means by the golden men, not men literally made
59 Craty|     means by the golden men, not men literally made of gold,
60 Craty|        you not suppose that good men of our own day would by
61 Craty|          But can you tell me why men are called anthropoi?—that
62 Craty|    excellent principle which, as men of sense, we must acknowledge,—
63 Craty|   enquiring about the meaning of men in giving them these names,—
64 Craty|           SOCRATES: They are the men to whom I should attribute
65 Craty|          have nothing to do with men while they are in the body,
66 Craty|        both among Gods and among men. And as in the words akolouthos
67 Craty|   whereas falsehood dwells among men below, and is rough like
68 Craty|        rises he gathers (alizoi) men together or because he is
69 Craty|       dikaion is more difficult: men are only agreed to a certain
70 Craty|          the mind of Gods, or of men, or of both?~HERMOGENES:
71 Craty|        which the reason is, that men long for (imeirousi) and
72 Craty|      under the circumstances, as men say, we must do as well
73 Craty|      does this art grow up among men like other arts? Let me