Dialogue

 1 Craty|     sense, Cratylus is right in saying that things have by nature
 2 Craty|         great changes, as I was saying, have been made in words,
 3 Craty|          I may remark, as I was saying about the Gods, that we
 4 Craty|     argument, that falsehood is saying that which is not, and therefore
 5 Craty|     which is not, and therefore saying nothing;—you cannot utter
 6 Craty|      what Hermogenes and I were saying about the letter rho accent,
 7 Craty|       is another point: we were saying that the legislator gives
 8 Craty|      Plato. Yet we are far from saying that this or any other theory
 9 Craty| Hipponicus, there is an ancient saying, that ‘hard is the knowledge
10 Craty|    never in luck. But, as I was saying, there is a good deal of
11 Craty|        SOCRATES: Does what I am saying apply only to the things
12 Craty|        and Cratylus is right in saying that things have names by
13 Craty|  business of a name, as we were saying, is to express the nature.
14 Craty|         whose names, as we were saying, they may have no business;
15 Craty|         And therefore, as I was saying, in the Attic dialect the
16 Craty|         Apollo, which, as I was saying, is generally supposed to
17 Craty|       the name, which, as I was saying just now, has reference
18 Craty|     Cratylus was quite right in saying that I was no true son of
19 Craty|        no marvel. But, as I was saying, my dear Hermogenes, let
20 Craty|     euphony. Thus far, as I was saying, there is a general agreement
21 Craty|     word mechane. But, as I was saying, being now at the top of
22 Craty|  Hermogenes, how right I was in saying that great changes are made
23 Craty|     yielding, as I was just now saying, to that motion which is
24 Craty|         example, is, as we were saying, a compound of agastos (
25 Craty|       then we shall be right in saying that we have at last reached
26 Craty|        been right in what I was saying?~HERMOGENES: In my opinion,
27 Craty|         measure of our ability, saying by way of preface, as I
28 Craty|  difficulty in like fashion, by saying that ‘the Gods gave the
29 Craty|        the letter rho, as I was saying, appeared to the imposer
30 Craty|       in what Socrates has been saying about names, or have you
31 Craty|         are right, Socrates, in saying that I have made a study
32 Craty|        and ask myself What am I saying? for there is nothing worse
33 Craty|        are we? Have we not been saying that the correct name indicates
34 Craty|   nothing? For is not falsehood saying the thing which is not?~
35 Craty|      what Hermogenes and I were saying about sounds. Do you agree
36 Craty|       Were we right or wrong in saying so?~CRATYLUS: I should say
37 Craty|   altered into rho, as you were saying to Hermogenes and in my
38 Craty|     sound: this is what you are saying?~CRATYLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
39 Craty|        known; or else, as I was saying, his names would not be
40 Craty|         discussion: Were we not saying that all things are in motion
41 Craty|    which we digressed. You were saying, if you remember, that he
42 Craty|        himself? For were we not saying just now that he made some
43 Craty|          CRATYLUS: What you are saying is, I think, true.~SOCRATES: