Cratylus
   Part
 1 Intro|     buzzing), of which the first syllable, as in its English equivalent,
 2 Intro|        adaptation of every word, syllable, letter to one another and
 3 Text |       iotas and sound the middle syllable grave instead of acute;
 4 Text |        and the acute on the last syllable has been changed to a grave.~


Theaetetus
   Part
 5 Intro|         to break down. The first syllable of Socrates’ name is SO.
 6 Intro|          We may suppose that the syllable has a separate form or idea
 7 Intro|     explanation. But how can the syllable be known if the letter remains
 8 Intro|       other hand he may know the syllable ‘The’ in the name Theaetetus,
 9 Intro|          mistaken about the same syllable in the name Theodorus, and
10 Intro|         relation of letters to a syllable, and of the terms to a proposition.~
11 Text |      asks you to spell the first syllable of my name:—Theaetetus,
12 Text |      which you would give of the syllable?~THEAETETUS: I should.~SOCRATES:
13 Text |    SOCRATES: And do we mean by a syllable two letters, or if there
14 Text |          O, which form the first syllable of my own name; must not
15 Text |        must not he who knows the syllable, know both of them?~THEAETETUS:
16 Text |        if he is ever to know the syllable, he must know the letters
17 Text |        to have maintained that a syllable is not the letters, but
18 Text |          as we now say, that the syllable is a simple form arising
19 Text |   alternative be that either the syllable is not the letters, and
20 Text |     letters are not parts of the syllable, or that the syllable will
21 Text |        the syllable, or that the syllable will be the same with the
22 Text |          existence of parts in a syllable, it would be ridiculous
23 Text | according to our present view, a syllable must surely be some indivisible
24 Text |        SOCRATES: Then is not the syllable in the same case as the
25 Text |      sure.~SOCRATES: If, then, a syllable is a whole, and has many
26 Text |       the letters as well as the syllable must be intelligible and
27 Text |         of him who says that the syllable can be known and expressed,
28 Text |        if some one says that the syllable is known and the letter