Dialogue

 1 Craty|     prance. ‘Only one more God; tell me about my godfather Hermes.’
 2 Craty|        entreat my questioner to tell me his own opinion, he replies,
 3 Craty|      and when you know come and tell me. ‘I have thought, Socrates,
 4 Craty|         affinity of races, they tell us something about the association
 5 Craty|        they originated, who can tell? Nevertheless we can imagine
 6 Craty|     monuments, if it could only tell us the history of itself.~(
 7 Craty|     Then every man’s name, as I tell him, is that which he is
 8 Craty|        matter, if he would only tell, and could entirely convince
 9 Craty|       chose to be intelligible. Tell me, Socrates, what this
10 Craty|         oracle means; or rather tell me, if you will be so good,
11 Craty|      and beg and entreat him to tell you what he has learnt from
12 Craty|    indeed; not I.~SOCRATES: But tell me, friend, did not Homer
13 Craty|          which, as philosophers tell us, is the way to have a
14 Craty|       the meaning of this word? Tell me if my view is right.~
15 Craty|        and rhetors. But can you tell me why men are called anthropoi?—
16 Craty|       is that?~SOCRATES: I will tell you my own opinion; but
17 Craty|        called from the verb ‘to tell’ (eirein), because she was
18 Craty|         is it?~SOCRATES: I will tell you; but I should like to
19 Craty|      know first whether you can tell me what is the meaning of
20 Craty|       cannot.~SOCRATES: Shall I tell you what I suspect to be
21 Craty|  earnestly beg my questioner to tell me his own honest opinion,
22 Craty|      travestied that you cannot tell the meaning, although there
23 Craty|       But I wish that you would tell me, Socrates, what sort
24 Craty|       fitness, so that I cannot tell whether his obscurity is
25 Craty|   obscurity is intended or not. Tell me now, Cratylus, here in
26 Craty|      your own? and if you have, tell me what your view is, and
27 Craty|      enough for me, if you will tell me whether the nonsense
28 Craty| CRATYLUS: Quite true.~SOCRATES: Tell me, then, did the first
29 Craty|       like to ask your opinion: Tell me, whether there is or
30 Craty|       found the truth, come and tell me.~CRATYLUS: I will do