Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|      brother is a brother, and a father is a father, not of one
 2 Euthyd|       brother, and a father is a father, not of one man only, but
 3 Euthyd|      follow: ‘Much good has your father got out of the wisdom of
 4 Euthyd|       equal in years, Crito, the father of Critobulus, like Lysimachus
 5 Euthyd|          more than money, from a father or a guardian or a friend
 6 Euthyd|      nephew of Heracles; and his father was not my brother Patrocles,
 7 Euthyd|         my mother, but not of my father.~Then he is and is not your
 8 Euthyd|         brother.~Not by the same father, my good man, I said, for
 9 Euthyd|          for Chaeredemus was his father, and mine was Sophroniscus.~
10 Euthyd|           And was Sophroniscus a father, and Chaeredemus also?~Yes,
11 Euthyd|          said; the former was my father, and the latter his.~Then,
12 Euthyd|       said, Chaeredemus is not a father.~He is not my father, I
13 Euthyd|       not a father.~He is not my father, I said.~But can a father
14 Euthyd|        father, I said.~But can a father be other than a father?
15 Euthyd|         a father be other than a father? or are you the same as
16 Euthyd|         said, being other than a father, is not a father?~I suppose
17 Euthyd|          than a father, is not a father?~I suppose that he is not
18 Euthyd|         suppose that he is not a father, I replied.~For if, said
19 Euthyd|       argument, Chaeredemus is a father, then Sophroniscus, being
20 Euthyd| Sophroniscus, being other than a father, is not a father; and you,
21 Euthyd|          than a father, is not a father; and you, Socrates, are
22 Euthyd|          Socrates, are without a father.~Ctesippus, here taking
23 Euthyd|  argument, said: And is not your father in the same case, for he
24 Euthyd|          for he is other than my father?~Assuredly not, said Euthydemus.~
25 Euthyd|    connection; but is he only my father, Euthydemus, or is he the
26 Euthyd|         Euthydemus, or is he the father of all other men?~Of all
27 Euthyd|          the same person to be a father and not a father?~Certainly,
28 Euthyd|         to be a father and not a father?~Certainly, I did so imagine,
29 Euthyd|   monstrous to suppose that your father is the father of all.~But
30 Euthyd|          that your father is the father of all.~But he is, he replied.~
31 Euthyd|      himself.~And the dog is the father of them?~Yes, he said, I
32 Euthyd|         sure he is.~Then he is a father, and he is yours; ergo,
33 Euthyd|          yours; ergo, he is your father, and the puppies are your
34 Euthyd|          him.~Then you beat your father, he said.~I should have
35 Euthyd|         sons? much good has this father of you and your brethren
36 Euthyd|       speaking about the dog and father), and what is still more
37 Euthyd|      Apollo there is, who is the father of Ion, and a family Zeus,