Dialogue

 1 Craty|       ideas? Or if this latter explanation is refuted by his silence,
 2 Craty|     has begun, with a rational explanation of language. Still he preserves
 3 Craty|       and rhetoric; the double explanation of the name Hermogenes,
 4 Craty|     sophists are by a fanciful explanation converted into heroes; ‘
 5 Craty|     given by them he offers an explanation;—the boy was called Astyanax (‘
 6 Craty|      me; but when I ask for an explanation I am thought obtrusive,
 7 Craty|  letters at pleasure.’ And the explanation of this is custom or agreement:
 8 Craty|   Greek words are incapable of explanation. Allowing a good deal for
 9 Craty|        be observed. The common explanation of kata or some other preposition ‘
10 Craty| uniformly, and further that no explanation of language consistently
11 Craty|        so complex that no true explanation of them can be given. So
12 Craty|      anxious to have a further explanation he is ironical and mysterious,
13 Craty|      that they will scorn this explanation. What do you say to another?~
14 Craty|        should like to hear the explanation.~SOCRATES: Say rather an
15 Craty|   serious and also a facetious explanation of both these names; the
16 Craty|       these names; the serious explanation is not to be had from me,
17 Craty|     SOCRATES: Then that is the explanation of the name Pallas?~HERMOGENES:
18 Craty|       I suspect to be the true explanation of this and several other
19 Craty|      able to give a very lucid explanation of first names, or let him
20 Craty|        my dear friend, and the explanation of that is custom.~SOCRATES: