Dialogue

 1 Craty|    artificer of words, and the legislator gives authority to them.
 2 Craty|         when he says that ‘the legislator made language with the dialectician
 3 Craty|        not to suppose that the legislator is performing any extraordinary
 4 Craty|  teacher receive them from the legislator? He is the skilled person
 5 Craty| several kinds of webs. And the legislator ought to know the different
 6 Craty|      who is able to direct the legislator in his work of naming, be
 7 Craty|       dialectician directs the legislator how he is to impose names;
 8 Craty|     having the value which the legislator intended. And the same may
 9 Craty|      erate tis, or perhaps the legislator may have been thinking of
10 Craty|   general instrument which the legislator has employed to express
11 Craty|  artist of names, that is, the legislator, may be a good or he may
12 Craty|        we were saying that the legislator gives names; and therefore
13 Craty|     were his ‘law-givers’—‘the legislator with the dialectician standing
14 Craty|     name, uses the work of the legislator?~HERMOGENES: I agree.~SOCRATES:
15 Craty|   SOCRATES: And is every man a legislator, or the skilled only?~HERMOGENES:
16 Craty|      of names; and this is the legislator, who of all skilled artisans
17 Craty|     SOCRATES: And how does the legislator make names? and to what
18 Craty|        to names: ought not our legislator also to know how to put
19 Craty|        true.~SOCRATES: And the legislator, whether he be Hellene or
20 Craty|       be deemed by you a worse legislator, provided he gives the true
21 Craty|        best able to direct the legislator in his work, and will know
22 Craty|  SOCRATES: And the work of the legislator is to give names, and the
23 Craty|     having the value which the legislator intended—so well did he
24 Craty|       Yes, Hermogenes, and the legislator called him Hades, not from
25 Craty|       have been given when the legislator was thinking of the heavens,
26 Craty|      eirein and mesasthai, the legislator formed the name of the God
27 Craty|       this is expressed by the legislator in the name, which is a
28 Craty|  another ill name given by the legislator to stagnation and forced
29 Craty| goggulon (round). Thus did the legislator, reducing all things into
30 Craty|  artist of names is called the legislator?~CRATYLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
31 Craty|    Then like other artists the legislator may be good or he may be
32 Craty|       names was the art of the legislator?~CRATYLUS: Quite true.~SOCRATES: