Dialogue

 1 Parme|     would have been admitted by Zeno and Parmenides themselves.
 2 Parme|        are informed by him that Zeno and Parmenides were not
 3 Parme|        well-favoured,’ and that Zeno was ‘very good-looking’;
 4 Parme|    great argument, on which, as Zeno knew from experience, he
 5 Parme|         Respecting the visit of Zeno and Parmenides to Athens,
 6 Parme|      the date of Parmenides and Zeno; fourthly, that the same
 7 Parme|         of this kind is said of Zeno and Parmenides. How then,
 8 Parme|    Socrates with Parmenides and Zeno, of which the report came
 9 Parme|         to him from Pythodorus, Zeno’s friend.’ ‘That is quite
10 Parme|    appearance of Parmenides and Zeno; they had come to Athens
11 Parme|          aged but well-favoured—Zeno, who was said to have been
12 Parme|    young man, came to see them: Zeno was reading one of his theses,
13 Parme|         read again.’~‘You mean, Zeno,’ said Socrates, ‘to argue
14 Parme|    turning to Parmenides, ‘that Zeno is your second self in his
15 Parme|            Yes, Socrates,’ said Zeno; ‘but though you are as
16 Parme|      his opinion Parmenides and Zeno were not very well pleased
17 Parme|        training which you heard Zeno practising; at the same
18 Parme|     Parmenides. ‘Then will you, Zeno?’ ‘Let us rather,’ said
19 Parme|            Let us rather,’ said Zeno, with a smile, ‘ask Parmenides,
20 Parme|    Socrates on the paradoxes of Zeno. He perfectly understands
21 Parme|    understands their drift, and Zeno himself is supposed to admit
22 Parme|      wonder that Parmenides and Zeno should hear the novel speculations
23 Parme|        more in the dialectic of Zeno than in the mere interrogation
24 Parme|       to apply the paradoxes of Zeno to ideas; and this is the
25 Parme|        which Socrates had heard Zeno practise in the days of
26 Parme|     given that the paradoxes of Zeno admitted of a higher application.
27 Parme|         to follow the method of Zeno, and that the complex dilemma,
28 Parme|     applied in this instance to Zeno’s familiar question of the ‘
29 Parme|      which Plato is leading us. Zeno had attempted to prove the
30 Parme|        Probably no more than of Zeno’s denial of the many, or
31 Parme|       from the point of view of Zeno or the Megarians. It is
32 Parme|     said Parmenides, ‘since, as Zeno remarks, we are alone, though
33 Parme|      one.’ ‘By all means,’ said Zeno. ‘And who will answer me?
34 Parme|      being, time, like space in Zeno’s puzzle of Achilles and
35 Parme|       is the same as that which Zeno has been already discussing: (
36 Parme|        part, that the method of Zeno should, as Socrates desired,
37 Parme| Antiphon, Pythodorus, Socrates, Zeno, Parmenides, Aristoteles.~
38 Parme|         Pythodorus, a friend of Zeno, and remembers a conversation
39 Parme|         place between Socrates, Zeno, and Parmenides many years
40 Parme|    appearance of Parmenides and Zeno; they came to Athens, as
41 Parme|         age, but well favoured. Zeno was nearly 40 years of age,
42 Parme|         to hear the writings of Zeno, which had been brought
43 Parme|  occasion of their visit. These Zeno himself read to them in
44 Parme|  dialogue. Pythodorus had heard Zeno repeat them before.~When
45 Parme|     said: What is your meaning, Zeno? Do you maintain that if
46 Parme|         position?~Just so, said Zeno.~And if the unlike cannot
47 Parme|     misunderstood you?~No, said Zeno; you have correctly understood
48 Parme| Parmenides, said Socrates, that Zeno would like to be not only
49 Parme|         us.~Yes, Socrates, said Zeno. But although you are as
50 Parme|      your account. But tell me, Zeno, do you not further think
51 Parme|       is nothing extraordinary, Zeno, in showing that the things
52 Parme|   appears to be treated by you, Zeno, in a very spirited manner;
53 Parme|     thought that Parmenides and Zeno were not altogether pleased
54 Parme|       of the other things which Zeno mentioned?~I think that
55 Parme| recommend?~That which you heard Zeno practising; at the same
56 Parme|         this very hypothesis of Zeno’s about the many, you should
57 Parme|        my years.~Then will you, Zeno? said Socrates.~Zeno answered
58 Parme|       you, Zeno? said Socrates.~Zeno answered with a smile:—Let
59 Parme|     heard for a long time.~When Zeno had thus spoken, Pythodorus,
60 Parme|      But I must indulge you, as Zeno says that I ought, and we
61 Parme|         one?~By all means, said Zeno.~And who will answer me?