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Dialogue
1 Intro| mathematician, as Socrates says in the Republic, is not 2 Intro| attributed to him, never says that he has been misunderstood: 3 Intro| Theaetetus to sit by them.~‘Yes,’ says Socrates, ‘that I may see 4 Intro| to examine into what he says, and the subject should 5 Intro| distinguished from them. ‘At first,’ says Socrates in his character 6 Intro| expressing the same thing when he says, “Man is the measure of 7 Intro| therefore, as Protagoras says, “To myself I am the judge 8 Intro| Theaetetus will not be angry,’ says Theodorus; ‘he is very good-natured. 9 Intro| one of your eyes; and now, says he, you see and do not see, 10 Intro| the inner man, as Pindar says, is going on a voyage of 11 Intro| others call him rogue, he says to himself: ‘They only mean 12 Intro| fanatics, and each of them says of the other that they have 13 Intro| interrogate him further. When he says that ‘knowledge is in perception,’ 14 Intro| as Aristotle (De Anim.) says, citing a verse of Empedocles, ‘ 15 Intro| good (for anything which he says to the contrary) as a rationale 16 Intro| sugkechumenon ti, as Plato says (Republic), until number 17 Thea| your face, for Theodorus says that we are alike; and yet 18 Thea| should enquire whether he who says that we are alike is a painter 19 Thea| Theaetetus, what Theodorus says? The philosopher, whom you 20 Thea| of expressing it. Man, he says, is the measure of all things, 21 Thea| men?~THEAETETUS: Yes, he says so.~SOCRATES: A wise man 22 Thea| so that whether a person says that a thing is or becomes, 23 Thea| being; and, as Protagoras says, to myself I am judge of 24 Thea| Well, and shall we do as he says?~THEODORUS: By all means.~ 25 Thea| THEODORUS: Yes, so he says.~SOCRATES: And are not we, 26 Thea| tens of thousands, as Homer says, who give me a world of 27 Thea| flying all abroad’ as Pindar says, measuring earth and heaven 28 Thea| heart of the soul, as Homer says in a parable, meaning to 29 Thea| my name:—Theaetetus, he says, what is SO?~THEAETETUS: 30 Thea| in the opinion of him who says that the syllable can be 31 Thea| subject; and if some one says that the syllable is known 32 Thea| for example, when Hesiod says that a waggon is made up