Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|        there cannot be too much gold.’ And would you be happy
 2 Euthyd|        you had three talents of gold in your belly, a talent
 3 Euthyd|        of the places where most gold was hidden in the earth?~
 4 Euthyd|     trouble and digging all the gold which there is in the earth
 5 Euthyd|      how to convert stones into gold, the knowledge would be
 6 Euthyd|        also knew how to use the gold? Do you not remember? I
 7 Euthyd|     stone; and being other than gold, you are not gold?~Very
 8 Euthyd|    other than gold, you are not gold?~Very true.~And so Chaeredemus,
 9 Euthyd|         And do you suppose that gold is not gold, or that a man
10 Euthyd|        suppose that gold is not gold, or that a man is not a
11 Euthyd|    think that the possession of gold is a good thing?~Yes, said
12 Euthyd|          he said.~And you admit gold to be a good?~Certainly,
13 Euthyd|    ought not a man then to have gold everywhere and always, and
14 Euthyd|        who has three talents of gold in his belly, and a talent
15 Euthyd|       his pate, and a stater of gold in either eye?~Yes, Euthydemus,
16 Euthyd| Scythians reckon those who have gold in their own skulls to be