Dialogue

 1 Craty|     with Hermogenes, and is he serious in those fanciful etymologies,
 2 Craty|    greatly to relish? Or is he serious in part only; and can we
 3 Craty|        not prove that they are serious. For Plato is in advance
 4 Craty|        blaze of jests the most serious matters, and then again
 5 Craty|      the dialogue stand to the serious? Granting all that can be
 6 Craty| dialogue Socrates becomes more serious, though he does not lay
 7 Craty|     explain all that will be a serious business; still, as I have
 8 Craty|       human speech, trivial or serious, there is a law of proportion.
 9 Craty|    solemn question; there is a serious and also a facetious explanation
10 Craty|       of both these names; the serious explanation is not to be