Dialogue

 1 Euthyd| question Cleinias. ‘Cleinias,’ says Euthydemus, ‘who learn,
 2 Euthyd|       wisdom be taught? ‘Yes,’ says Cleinias. The ingenuousness
 3 Euthyd|        wisdom.’ ‘That I will,’ says Cleinias.~After Socrates
 4 Euthyd|       joke, and Ctesippus then says that he is not reviling
 5 Euthyd|     contradicting them. ‘But,’ says Dionysodorus, ‘there is
 6 Euthyd|        of his puppies.’~‘But,’ says Euthydemus, unabashed, ‘
 7 Euthyd|    them in wrong places. ‘No,’ says Ctesippus, ‘there cannot
 8 Euthyd|     ritual, which, as Prodicus says, begins with initiation
 9 Euthyd|  things?~Certainly.~And he who says that thing says that which
10 Euthyd|     And he who says that thing says that which is?~Yes.~And
11 Euthyd|      which is?~Yes.~And he who says that which is, says the
12 Euthyd|        who says that which is, says the truth. And therefore
13 Euthyd|  therefore Dionysodorus, if he says that which is, says the
14 Euthyd|      if he says that which is, says the truth of you and no
15 Euthyd|         but in saying this, he says what is not.~Euthydemus
16 Euthyd|         He agreed.~Then no one says that which is not, for in
17 Euthyd|       your own showing, no one says what is false; but if Dionysodorus
18 Euthyd|     false; but if Dionysodorus says anything, he says what is
19 Euthyd| Dionysodorus says anything, he says what is true and what is.~
20 Euthyd|         For then neither of us says a word about the thing at
21 Euthyd|       water,’ which, as Pindar says, is the ‘best of all things,’
22 Euthyd|      man ought to be loved who says and manfully pursues and