Dialogue

 1 Parme|    Athens?’ ‘Why, yes: I came to ask a favour of you. First,
 2 Parme|         Antiphon. But why do you ask?’ ‘Let me introduce to you
 3 Parme|        said Zeno, with a smile, ‘ask Parmenides, for the undertaking
 4 Parme|       and contradictory.~When we ask what is the object of these
 5 Parme|           2.b. Once more, let us ask the question, If one is
 6 Parme|         in the world. If we once ask how they are related to
 7 Parme|         why I am here; I wish to ask a favour of you.~What may
 8 Parme|         Antiphon; but why do you ask?~Let me introduce some countrymen
 9 Parme|          more of us I should not ask him, for these are not subjects
10 Parme|    youngest and at your service. Ask, and I will answer.~Parmenides
11 Parme|      true.~Once more then let us ask, if one is what will follow.
12 Parme|          let us begin again, and ask, If one is, what must be
13 Parme| affections of the others?~Let us ask that question.~Must not
14 Parme|          I will begin again, and ask: If one is not, what are
15 Parme|       you say.~If one is not, we ask what will happen in respect
16 Parme|       back to the beginning, and ask if the one is not, and the
17 Parme|         what will follow.~Let us ask that question.~In the first