Dialogue

 1 Craty|       hastily taken up, but are said to be the result of mature
 2 Craty|        the ideas, he would have said, as he says of the names
 3 Craty|        Granting all that can be said about the provoking irony
 4 Craty|   intended. And the same may be said of a king and the son of
 5 Craty|      daimones—good men are well said to become daimones when
 6 Craty|    contriver of speeches. ‘Well said Cratylus, then, that I am
 7 Craty|      proposed to me. Justice is said to be o kaion, or the sun;
 8 Craty|        them. Or, as others have said: Man is man because he has
 9 Craty|      was probably the first who said that ‘language is imitative
10 Craty|      language might in truth be said to be a figure of speech.
11 Craty|        language: such a view is said to be unproven: it had better
12 Craty|        the process of change is said to be insensible: sounds,
13 Craty|     least to unlearn. It may be said that the explanations here
14 Craty|       of sound; we may be truly said to know what we can manufacture.
15 Craty|       to one another and may be said to derive their vocal effect
16 Craty|       modified by what has been said before and after in the
17 Craty|     with one another. It may be said to have thrown a light upon
18 Craty|         Socrates, that you have said the truth.~SOCRATES: Does
19 Craty|      birth. And the same may be said of trees and other things.
20 Craty|         And may not the same be said of a king? a king will often
21 Craty|        meaning. As was just now said, the names of Hector and
22 Craty|        terrible misfortunes are said to have happened to him
23 Craty|         own day would by him be said to be of golden race?~HERMOGENES:
24 Craty|          Socrates, that we have said enough of this class of
25 Craty|       times we too seem to have said esia for ousia, and this
26 Craty|      about Hermes, of whom I am said not to be a true son. Let
27 Craty| aeitheer; this may be correctly said, because this element is
28 Craty|       after hearing what he has said, to interrogate him gently: ‘
29 Craty|       blaberon is that which is said to hinder or harm (blaptein)
30 Craty|      you know that the ancients said duogon and not zugon?~HERMOGENES:
31 Craty|       ion), and the same may be said of not being, which is likewise
32 Craty|      anything else which may be said to have an essence?~HERMOGENES:
33 Craty|         by way of preface, as I said before of the Gods, that
34 Craty| falsehood may be spoken but not said?~CRATYLUS: Neither spoken
35 Craty|    CRATYLUS: Neither spoken nor said.~SOCRATES: Nor uttered nor
36 Craty|    these words, whether spoken, said, uttered, or addressed,
37 Craty|        and much the same may be said of amathia and akolasia,
38 Craty|     This is a point which, as I said before, cannot be determined