Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|           eager eyes of his lover Ctesippus, and others. The performance
 2 Euthyd|    friends you must all be!’~Here Ctesippus, the lover of Cleinias,
 3 Euthyd|     pacifies him with a joke, and Ctesippus then says that he is not
 4 Euthyd|        there be a contradiction?’ Ctesippus is unable to reply.~Socrates
 5 Euthyd|         have no sense or meaning. Ctesippus again breaks out, and again
 6 Euthyd|        etc?’ ‘Yes.’ The sceptical Ctesippus would like to have some
 7 Euthyd|         of dogs and sea-monsters. Ctesippus makes merry with the consequences
 8 Euthyd|          wrong places. ‘No,’ says Ctesippus, ‘there cannot be too much
 9 Euthyd|          a stater in either eye?’ Ctesippus, imitating the new wisdom,
10 Euthyd|          successfully retorted by Ctesippus, to the great delight of
11 Euthyd|           in which Socrates, like Ctesippus, in self-defence borrows
12 Euthyd|        before 390 at the soonest. Ctesippus, who is the lover of Cleinias,
13 Euthyd|         Euthydemus, Dionysodorus, Ctesippus.~SCENE: The Lyceum.~CRITO:
14 Euthyd|           lovers, one of whom was Ctesippus the Paeanian, a well-bred
15 Euthyd|           the youth Cleinias, and Ctesippus: and here are several others,
16 Euthyd|           to gather round us. Now Ctesippus was sitting at some distance
17 Euthyd|          eager to learn: to which Ctesippus and all of them with one
18 Euthyd|         to be, or to perish!~When Ctesippus heard this he got very angry (
19 Euthyd|        replied: And do you think, Ctesippus, that it is possible to
20 Euthyd|          to tell a lie?~Yes, said Ctesippus; I should be mad to say
21 Euthyd|           and no other?~Yes, said Ctesippus.~And that is a distinct
22 Euthyd|        lie.~Yes, Euthydemus, said Ctesippus; but in saying this, he
23 Euthyd|        nowhere?~I think not, said Ctesippus.~Well, but do rhetoricians,
24 Euthyd|         is.~Yes, Euthydemus, said Ctesippus; but he speaks of things
25 Euthyd|          as they really are.~Why, Ctesippus, said Dionysodorus, do you
26 Euthyd|          To be sure they do, said Ctesippus; and they speak coldly of
27 Euthyd|    dialectician.~You are abusive, Ctesippus, said Dionysodorus, you
28 Euthyd|         joke with him and said: O Ctesippus, I think that we must allow
29 Euthyd|           will only make me good.~Ctesippus said: And I, Socrates, am
30 Euthyd|        any one else.~Indeed, said Ctesippus; then now you may hear me
31 Euthyd|          Of their existence.~Yes, Ctesippus, and we just now proved,
32 Euthyd|           does that signify? said Ctesippus; you and I may contradict
33 Euthyd|          him who speaks not?~Here Ctesippus was silent; and I in my
34 Euthyd|         now any more than of old.~Ctesippus said: Men of Chios, Thurii,
35 Euthyd|       again endeavoured to soothe Ctesippus, and said to him: To you,
36 Euthyd|          and said to him: To you, Ctesippus, I must repeat what I said
37 Euthyd|           may have forgotten, and Ctesippus was the real answerer.~CRITO:
38 Euthyd|         the real answerer.~CRITO: Ctesippus! nonsense.~SOCRATES: All
39 Euthyd|         No to that?~By Zeus, said Ctesippus, interrupting, I only wish
40 Euthyd|       things?~Certainly not, said Ctesippus: you must further tell us
41 Euthyd|           rest. They fancied that Ctesippus was making game of them,
42 Euthyd|           all things. For at last Ctesippus began to throw off all restraint;
43 Euthyd|   Socrates, are without a father.~Ctesippus, here taking up the argument,
44 Euthyd|            I did so imagine, said Ctesippus.~And do you suppose that
45 Euthyd|        materia,’ Euthydemus, said Ctesippus, and you had better take
46 Euthyd|           What, of men only, said Ctesippus, or of horses and of all
47 Euthyd|         same admissions from you, Ctesippus. You say that you have a
48 Euthyd|          a villain of a one, said Ctesippus.~And he has puppies?~Yes,
49 Euthyd|        interposing, in order that Ctesippus might not get in his word:
50 Euthyd|          word: You beat this dog?~Ctesippus said, laughing, Indeed I
51 Euthyd|        reason to beat yours, said Ctesippus; what could he have been
52 Euthyd|           But neither he nor you, Ctesippus, have any need of much good.~
53 Euthyd|       other man; for tell me now, Ctesippus, if you think it good or
54 Euthyd|          not be too much for him?~Ctesippus said: Quite so, Euthydemus,
55 Euthyd|         possible?~Very true, said Ctesippus; and do you think, Euthydemus,
56 Euthyd|         to the previous answer of Ctesippus and said:—~Do you not think
57 Euthyd|           a good thing?~Yes, said Ctesippus, and the more the better.~
58 Euthyd|        eye?~Yes, Euthydemus, said Ctesippus; and the Scythians reckon
59 Euthyd|           see to any extent, said Ctesippus.~What can they see?~Nothing;
60 Euthyd|    Dionysodorus.~Impossible, said Ctesippus.~Or a speaking of the silent?~
61 Euthyd|          speaking (I thought that Ctesippus was put upon his mettle
62 Euthyd|   speaking are silent.~What, said Ctesippus; then all things are not
63 Euthyd|      those which speak.~Nay, said Ctesippus, but the question which
64 Euthyd| non-plussed’ at that answer.~Here Ctesippus, as his manner was, burst
65 Euthyd|     Cleinias, whose laughter made Ctesippus ten times as uproarious;
66 Euthyd|         Crito, and lay prostrate. Ctesippus came to the rescue.~Bravo,
67 Euthyd|      Dionysodorus.~Poseidon, said Ctesippus, what awful distinctions.
68 Euthyd|          any one. I observed that Ctesippus learned to imitate you in