Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|              Socrates narrates to Crito a remarkable scene in which
 2 Euthyd|   Cleinias among their disciples.~Crito tells Socrates that he has
 3 Euthyd|         of them taken separately.~Crito is anxious about the education
 4 Euthyd|           and his equal in years, Crito, the father of Critobulus,
 5 Euthyd|         and sympathetic relation. Crito will not believe that Socrates
 6 Euthyd|         understand, any more than Crito, that he is pursuing his
 7 Euthyd|          The concluding remark of Crito, that he has a difficulty
 8 Euthyd|         narrator of the Dialogue. Crito, Cleinias, Euthydemus, Dionysodorus,
 9 Euthyd|     Ctesippus.~SCENE: The Lyceum.~CRITO: Who was the person, Socrates,
10 Euthyd|         SOCRATES: There were two, Crito; which of them do you mean?~
11 Euthyd|        which of them do you mean?~CRITO: The one whom I mean was
12 Euthyd|       SOCRATES: He whom you mean, Crito, is Euthydemus; and on my
13 Euthyd|         part in the conversation.~CRITO: Neither of them are known
14 Euthyd|      wisdom, about which you ask, Crito, they are wonderful— consummate!
15 Euthyd|         false. Now I am thinking, Crito, of placing myself in their
16 Euthyd|           their skill to any one.~CRITO: But, Socrates, are you
17 Euthyd|          SOCRATES: Certainly not, Crito; as I will prove to you,
18 Euthyd|        receive me; and therefore, Crito, I shall try and persuade
19 Euthyd|       them willing to receive us.~CRITO: I see no objection, Socrates,
20 Euthyd|         answering.~What followed, Crito, how can I rightly narrate?
21 Euthyd|           at heart.~Thus I spoke, Crito, and was all attention to
22 Euthyd|           far wrong; for the man, Crito, began a remarkable discourse
23 Euthyd|         some other must be found.~CRITO: And do you mean, Socrates,
24 Euthyd|    SOCRATES: Are you incredulous, Crito?~CRITO: Indeed, I am; for
25 Euthyd|           you incredulous, Crito?~CRITO: Indeed, I am; for if he
26 Euthyd|  Ctesippus was the real answerer.~CRITO: Ctesippus! nonsense.~SOCRATES:
27 Euthyd| Dionysodorus. I dare say, my good Crito, that they may have been
28 Euthyd|          heard them I am certain.~CRITO: Yes, indeed, Socrates,
29 Euthyd|          to seek as much as ever.~CRITO: How did that happen, Socrates?~
30 Euthyd|         by us with the political.~CRITO: Well, and what came of
31 Euthyd|       things, and utilizing them.~CRITO: And were you not right,
32 Euthyd|        SOCRATES: You shall judge, Crito, if you are willing to hear
33 Euthyd|        answer. And would not you, Crito, say the same?~CRITO: Yes,
34 Euthyd|         you, Crito, say the same?~CRITO: Yes, I should.~SOCRATES:
35 Euthyd|           say—it produces health?~CRITO: I should.~SOCRATES: And
36 Euthyd|          the fruits of the earth?~CRITO: Yes.~SOCRATES: And what
37 Euthyd|          be ready with an answer?~CRITO: Indeed I am not, Socrates.~
38 Euthyd|        SOCRATES: No more were we, Crito. But at any rate you know
39 Euthyd|            it ought to be useful.~CRITO: Certainly.~SOCRATES: And
40 Euthyd|         ought to do us some good?~CRITO: Certainly, Socrates.~SOCRATES:
41 Euthyd|       some kind is the only good.~CRITO: Yes, that was what you
42 Euthyd|          good, and make us happy.~CRITO: Yes; that was the conclusion
43 Euthyd|           make men wise and good?~CRITO: Why not, Socrates?~SOCRATES:
44 Euthyd|   cobbling, and the rest of them?~CRITO: I think not, Socrates.~
45 Euthyd|         do with it? Shall we say, Crito, that it is the knowledge
46 Euthyd|           to make other men good?~CRITO: By all means.~SOCRATES:
47 Euthyd|          or science of happiness.~CRITO: Indeed, Socrates, you do
48 Euthyd|  perplexity.~SOCRATES: Thereupon, Crito, seeing that I was on the
49 Euthyd|           our lives in happiness.~CRITO: And did Euthydemus show
50 Euthyd|           that they did. At last, Crito, I too was carried away
51 Euthyd|          I was quite struck dumb, Crito, and lay prostrate. Ctesippus
52 Euthyd|         invincible.~Then, my dear Crito, there was universal applause
53 Euthyd|          Such was the discussion, Crito; and after a few more words
54 Euthyd|         business of money-making.~CRITO: Truly, Socrates, though
55 Euthyd|         was walking up and down. ‘Crito,’ said he to me, ‘are you
56 Euthyd|           time. But the truth is, Crito, that the study itself and
57 Euthyd|         in the right.~SOCRATES: O Crito, they are marvellous men;
58 Euthyd|        with which they do battle?~CRITO: He was certainly not an
59 Euthyd|       SOCRATES: Now I understand, Crito; he is one of an amphibious
60 Euthyd|           fruits of their wisdom.~CRITO: What do you say of them,
61 Euthyd|         of theirs.~SOCRATES: Yes, Crito, there is more speciousness
62 Euthyd|          them as they really are.~CRITO: I have often told you,
63 Euthyd|        philosophy.~SOCRATES: Dear Crito, do you not know that in
64 Euthyd|          the general, noble arts?~CRITO: Certainly they are, in
65 Euthyd|        are ridiculous performers?~CRITO: Yes, indeed, that is very
66 Euthyd|           allow them to your son?~CRITO: That would not be reasonable,
67 Euthyd|           you then be reasonable, Crito, and do not mind whether