Dialogue

 1 Craty|     Socrates, that if I agree to call a man a horse, then a man
 2 Craty|       Hephaestus, ‘whom the Gods call Xanthus, and men call Scamander;’
 3 Craty|       Gods call Xanthus, and men call Scamander;’ or in the lines
 4 Craty|          the bird which the Gods call ‘Chalcis,’ and men ‘Cymindis;’
 5 Craty|            or the hill which men call ‘Batieia,’ and the Gods ‘
 6 Craty|      receive any name by which I call him.’ And to avoid offence,
 7 Craty|         for example, what we now call emera was formerly called
 8 Craty|       then, why do the Eritreans call that skleroter which we
 9 Craty|          that skleroter which we call sklerotes? We can understand
10 Craty|     skleroter;’ ‘the Thessalians call Apollo Amlos;’ ‘The Phrygians
11 Craty|         of animals; for they too call to one another and are answered.
12 Craty|      only can men utter a cry or call, but they can communicate
13 Craty|       parts of speech, as we may call them by anticipation, like
14 Craty|     grammarian or logician might call them, yet at a later stage
15 Craty|        expression of what we now call human thoughts and feelings.
16 Craty| intermediate between what we now call language and the cry of
17 Craty|         If all the world were to call you Hermogenes, that would
18 Craty|          which anybody agrees to call it?~HERMOGENES: That is
19 Craty|         instance;—suppose that I call a man a horse or a horse
20 Craty|         ask and answer you would call a dialectician?~HERMOGENES:
21 Craty|      must clearly be supposed to call things by their right and
22 Craty|  HERMOGENES: Why, of course they call them rightly, if they call
23 Craty|       call them rightly, if they call them at all. But to what
24 Craty|            as he says, ‘the Gods call Xanthus, and men call Scamander.’~
25 Craty|       Gods call Xanthus, and men call Scamander.’~HERMOGENES:
26 Craty|     which, as he says,~‘The Gods call Chalcis, and men Cymindis:’~
27 Craty|          Il. ‘The hill which men call Batieia and the immortals
28 Craty|          calf, then I should not call that a foal but a calf;
29 Craty|        foal but a calf; nor do I call any inhuman birth a man,
30 Craty|        some person who wanted to call him Talantatos (the most
31 Craty|         into two parts, for some call him Zena, and use the one
32 Craty|    others who use the other half call him Dia; the two together
33 Craty|      SOCRATES: Then you may well call that power phuseche which
34 Craty|          the names by which they call themselves, whatever they
35 Craty|         in prayers, that we will call them by any sort or kind
36 Craty|        are led by their fears to call the God Pluto instead.~HERMOGENES:
37 Craty|          for all the Thessalians call him Aplos; also he is aei
38 Craty|        appellation?~SOCRATES: We call her Pallas.~HERMOGENES:
39 Craty|         the use of the hands, we call shaking (pallein), or dancing.~
40 Craty|        speeches, you may rightly call him Eirhemes.’ And this
41 Craty|      Doric form, for the Dorians call him alios, and this name
42 Craty|       air is wind, and the poets call the winds ‘air-blasts,’ (
43 Craty|     other charming words, as you call them?~HERMOGENES: Surely,
44 Craty|   SOCRATES: And if a man were to call him Hermogenes, would he
45 Craty|          a doubt whether you can call him Hermogenes, if he is
46 Craty|        to figures or to names, I call right, and when applied
47 Craty|          name which is unlike, I call wrong, and in the case of
48 Craty|        assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment
49 Craty|           according to which you call small great and great small—