(...) The Republic
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2501 5    |          there is that the whole race may one day fall under the yoke
2502 5    |             spoils taken from kinsmen may be a pollution unless commanded
2503 5    |               is to be the practice? ~May I have the pleasure, he
2504 5    |         distinction, he replied. ~And may I not observe with equal
2505 5    |               houses. ~Agreed; and we may agree also in thinking that
2506 5    |               ways and means-the rest may be left. ~If I loiter for
2507 5    |               of absolute justice; or may we be satisfied with an
2508 5    |            the actual, whatever a man may think, always, in the nature
2509 5    |           able to discover how a city may be governed nearly as we
2510 5    |               advice, and, perhaps, I may be able to fit answers to
2511 5    |               said, and I hope that I may in some way or other be
2512 5    |           part only? ~The whole. ~And may we not say of the philosopher
2513 5    |               food is not hungry, and may be said to have a bad appetite
2514 5    |               and is never satisfied, may be justly termed a philosopher?
2515 5    |                He is wide awake. ~And may we not say that the mind
2516 5    |             to any knowledge which he may have, and that we are rejoiced
2517 5    |             that absolute being is or may be absolutely known, but
2518 5    |             term, when discovered, we may truly call the subject of
2519 5    |             is true of the rest. ~And may not the many which are doubles
2520 5    |             and the like-such persons may be said to have opinion
2521 5    |             and eternal and immutable may be said to know, and not
2522 6    |            love the truth. ~Yes, that may be safely affirmed of them. ~"
2523 6    |            safely affirmed of them. ~"May be." my friend, I replied,
2524 6    |            rogues, and that those who may be considered the best of
2525 6    |               a different stamp; they may be justly compared to the
2526 6    |             greater. ~Certainly. ~And may we not say, Adeimantus,
2527 6    |               the power of God, as we may truly say. ~I quite assent,
2528 6    |        soothed or infuriated; and you may suppose further, that when,
2529 6    |             make a man a philosopher, may, if he be ill-educated,
2530 6    |               and neglects; and there may be a gifted few who leave
2531 6    |            justice at whose side they may fight and be saved. Such
2532 6    |              and be saved. Such a one may be compared to a man who
2533 6    |             in most respects; but you may remember my saying before,
2534 6    |               the study of philosophy may be so ordered as not to
2535 6    |            want of power: my zeal you may see for yourselves; and
2536 6    |         invited by someone else, they may, perhaps, go and hear a
2537 6    |             to their bodies that they may have them to use in the
2538 6    |            men, or do something which may profit them against the
2539 6    |               a few this harsh temper may be found, but not in the
2540 6    |               other point, that there may be sons of kings or princes
2541 6    |             one is enough. ~The ruler may impose the laws and institutions
2542 6    |          describing, and the citizens may possibly be willing to obey
2543 6    |        highest of all knowledge? ~You may remember, I said, that we
2544 6    |             pains, in order that they may appear in their full beauty
2545 6    |              right to do that: but he may say what he thinks, as a
2546 6    |              is an absolute; for they may be brought under a single
2547 6    |          nature in order that the one may be able to hear and the
2548 6    |             you and all mankind say. ~May not the relation of sight
2549 6    |             instance, light and sight may be truly said to be like
2550 6    |             sphere, science and truth may be deemed to be like the
2551 6    |            God forbid, I replied; but may I ask you to consider the
2552 6    |               In like manner the good may be said to be not only the
2553 6    |            said, and the exaggeration may be set down to you; for
2554 6    |               name (ovpavos, opatos). May I suppose that you have
2555 6    |         hypotheses, in order that she may soar beyond them to the
2556 7    |            will be his reply? And you may further imagine that his
2557 7    |          entire allegory, I said, you may now append, dear Glaucon,
2558 7    |              natural, if our allegory may be trusted. ~Yes, very natural. ~
2559 7    |             Yes, he said, such an art may be presumed. ~And whereas
2560 7    |              of a ruler, and then you may have a well-ordered State;
2561 7    |            and decay of the body, and may therefore be regarded as
2562 7    |         remains? ~Well, I said, there may be nothing left of our special
2563 7    |          universal application. ~What may that be? ~A something which
2564 7    |               power, in order that we may have clearer proof that
2565 7    |              finger. ~Very good. ~You may suppose that they are seen
2566 7    |            and intelligence, that she may see whether the several
2567 7    |           knowledge which legislation may fitly prescribe; and we
2568 7    |               see that this knowledge may be truly called necessary,
2569 7    |               training, although they may derive no other advantage
2570 7    |         transient. ~That, he replied, may be readily allowed, and
2571 7    |         others any benefit which they may receive. ~I think that I
2572 7    |           said; to everyone else this may be clear, but not to me. ~
2573 7    |              very likely right, and I may be a simpleton: but, in
2574 7    |          other great artist, which we may chance to behold; any geometrician
2575 7    |           others, as I imagine, which may be left to wiser persons. ~
2576 7    |              already named. ~And what may that be? ~The second, I
2577 7    |            imitate; for sight, as you may remember, was imagined by
2578 7    |              existence, with which we may compare the raising of that
2579 7    |             saying, he replied, which may be hard to believe, yet,
2580 7    |                 Of that assertion you may be as confident as of the
2581 7    |             whatever degree he fails, may in that degree also be said
2582 7    |              which he devotes himself may be of an opposite kind,
2583 7    |              an opposite kind, and he may have the other sort of lameness. ~
2584 7    |               a man when he grows old may learn many things-for he
2585 7    |          remember. ~The same practice may be followed, I said, in
2586 7    |      excusable. ~Yes, he said; and, I may add, pitiable. ~Therefore,
2587 7    |         Therefore, that your feelings may not be moved to pity about
2588 7    |                for youngsters, as you may have observed, when they
2589 8    |           which we digressed, that we may return into the old path. ~
2590 8    |            these are nondescripts and may be found equally among Hellenes
2591 8    |            answer to us. ~Yes, and we may assume that they answer
2592 8    |         Glaucon. ~Perhaps, I said, he may be like him in that one
2593 8    |               rights in order that he may escape trouble. ~And how
2594 8    |            liable. ~What evil? ~A man may sell all that he has, and
2595 8    |              that he has, and another may acquire his property; yet
2596 8    |       property; yet after the sale he may dwell in the city of which
2597 8    |              was only a spendthrift. ~May we not say that this is
2598 8    |              who is not a ruler. ~And may we be so bold as to affirm
2599 8    |              by force? ~Certainly, we may be so bold. ~The existence
2600 8    |               of oligarchy; and there may be many other evils. ~Very
2601 8    |             elected for their wealth, may now be dismissed. Let us
2602 8    |              that he has are lost; he may have been a general or some
2603 8    |               only of how lesser sums may be turned into larger ones,
2604 8    |             rulers and their subjects may come in one another's way,
2605 8    |          fellowsailors; aye, and they may observe the behavior of
2606 8    |               wiry, sunburnt poor man may be placed in battle at the
2607 8    |               of a touch from without may bring on illness, and sometimes
2608 8    |              provocation, a commotion may arise within-in the same
2609 8    |        illness, of which the occasion may be very slight, the one
2610 8    |              at war with herself; and may be at times distracted,
2611 8    |           freedom and frankness-a man may say and do what he likes? ~'
2612 8    |               has made his choice, he may found his State. ~He will
2613 8    |            the desires of which a man may get rid, if he takes pains
2614 8    |         either kind, in order that we may have a general notion of
2615 8    |         pursuit of wisdom and virtue, may be rightly called unnecessary? ~
2616 8    |             unnecessary? ~Very true. ~May we not say that these desires
2617 8    |              of pleasure-then, as you may imagine, the change will
2618 8    |            over against democracy; he may truly be called the democratic
2619 8    |                Then, in order that we may see clearly what we are
2620 8    |               And then, although they may have no desire of change,
2621 8    |              in order that the people may require a leader. ~To be
2622 8    |            object, which is that they may be impoverished by payment
2623 8    |             is being done. ~Yes, that may be expected. ~And the tyrant,
2624 8    |         fortunes of attainted persons may suffice, he will be able
2625 8    |              he said. ~Very well; and may we not rightly say that
2626 9    |            all shame and sense, a man may not be ready to commit. ~
2627 9    |            property, in order that he may gratify them? ~Yes, that
2628 9    |              of some other tyrant who may probably want them for a
2629 9    |      friendship. ~Certainly not. ~And may we not rightly call such
2630 9    |              miserable; although this may not be the opinion of men
2631 9    |                who is only a unit and may perhaps have a few retainers
2632 9    |              estimating the men, too, may I not fairly make a like
2633 9    |              who has a clear insight. May I suppose that the judgment
2634 9    |            family relations, where he may be seen stripped of his
2635 9    |            you an illustration, which may, I think, throw a light
2636 9    |            many slaves: from them you may form an idea of the tyrant'
2637 9    |             real tyrant, whatever men may think, is the real slave,
2638 9    |               there is another, which may also have some weight. ~
2639 9    |              principles, the division may, I think, furnish a new
2640 9    |       knowledge," are titles which we may fitly apply to that part
2641 9    |            men, another in others, as may happen? ~Yes. ~Then we may
2642 9    |            may happen? ~Yes. ~Then we may begin by assuming that there
2643 9    |               suppose, as you perhaps may at present, that pleasure
2644 9    |          spirited element also. ~Then may we not confidently assert
2645 9    |             stage of the argument, we may revert to the words which
2646 9    |            image of the soul, that he may have his own words presented
2647 9    |             sees only the outer hull, may believe the beast to be
2648 9    |                if he agree so far, we may ask him to answer another
2649 9    |           authority, in order that we may be all, as far as possible,
2650 9    |            and when this is done they may go their ways. ~Yes, he
2651 9    |            object will be not that he may be fair or strong or well,
2652 9    |        methinks, which he who desires may behold, and beholding, may
2653 9    |            may behold, and beholding, may set his own house in order.
2654 10   |               not? for the duller eye may often see a thing sooner
2655 10   |               God, as I think that we may say-for no one else can
2656 10   |               think, he said, that we may fairly designate him as
2657 10   |               like to know whether he may be thought to imitate that
2658 10   |               mean? ~I mean, that you may look at a bed from different
2659 10   |               he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple
2660 10   |               whether here also there may not be a similar illusion.
2661 10   |        similar illusion. Perhaps they may have come across imitators
2662 10   |           been deceived by them; they may not have remembered when
2663 10   |        realities? Or, after all, they may be in the right, and poets
2664 10   |         subjects of his poems, and we may fairly ask him about them. "
2665 10   |            with his words and phrases may be said to lay on the colors
2666 10   |          right form. ~Most true. ~And may we not say the same of all
2667 10   |              a thing good or bad, and may be expected therefore to
2668 10   |               bad. ~By all means. ~We may state the question thus:
2669 10   |               have enough of them, we may call irrational, useless,
2670 10   |             and cowardly? ~Indeed, we may. ~And does not the latter-I
2671 10   |       imitated? ~Clearly. ~And now we may fairly take him and place
2672 10   |               happens to us, then you may observe that we pride ourselves
2673 10   |                he said. ~And the same may be said of lust and anger
2674 10   |             life according to him, we may love and honor those who
2675 10   |          constrained us. But that she may not impute to us any harshness
2676 10   |       conscious of her charms; but we may not on that account betray
2677 10   |            metre? ~Certainly. ~And we may further grant to those of
2678 10   |               to her strains; that we may not fall away into the childish
2679 10   |            dissolved or destroyed, we may be certain that of such
2680 10   |              is no destruction? ~That may be assumed. ~Well, I said,
2681 10   |             only in a condition which may be compared to that of the
2682 10   |               given back, that so she may win that palm of appearance
2683 10   |            And the friend of the gods may be supposed to receive from
2684 10   |               him. ~And of the unjust may not the opposite be supposed? ~
2685 10   |              you were saying. And you may suppose that I have repeated
2686 10   |              only, if peradventure he may be able to learn and may
2687 10   |              may be able to learn and may find someone who will make
2688 10   |              right, that there too he may be undazzled by the desire


The Second Alcibiades
     Part
2689 Pre  |           ancients themselves: yet it may claim the distinction of
2690 Pre  |            short spurious work, which may be attributed to the second
2691 Text |             mood to grant whatever he may request? There is the story
2692 Text |             Consider, my dear friend: may it not be quite otherwise?~
2693 Text |           seems to me. But perhaps we may consider the matter thus:—~
2694 Text |             do you believe that a man may labour under some other
2695 Text |              us’ looking together, we may find what we seek.~ALCIBIADES:
2696 Text |              whom we call physicians, may require a different treatment.
2697 Text |            yet they are all diseases. May we not take an illustration
2698 Text |      inexperienced’ or ‘foolish.’ You may even find other names, if
2699 Text |            SOCRATES: And yet surely I may not suppose that you would
2700 Text |                Socrates?~SOCRATES: It may be, in short, that the possession
2701 Text |              my opinion.~SOCRATES: We may take the orators for an
2702 Text |           good, when shortly after he may have to recall his prayer,
2703 Text |             and sacrifices, which men may celebrate year after year,
2704 Text |              eyes of Diomede that~‘He may distinguish between God
2705 Text |            man.’~Afterwards the means may be given to you whereby
2706 Text |              given to you whereby you may distinguish between good
2707 Text |             receive whatever else you may proffer. Euripides makes


The Seventh Letter
     Part
2708 Text |           must first, in order that I may not treat as the main point
2709 Text |               willing to obey him, he may go on to give him other
2710 Text |              in what way their object may most readily and easily
2711 Text |            consequences whatever they may be. For none of us can escape
2712 Text |             Dionysios. Whoever wishes may next hear of my second journey
2713 Text |               whatever his occupation may be, but throughout it all
2714 Text |            act of showing, fills, one may say, every man with puzzlement
2715 Text |         called moral character)-or it may have become so by deterioration-not
2716 Text |               honourable, though they may be good at learning and
2717 Text |        writing. In one word, then, it may be known from this that,
2718 Text |              which he had from me, we may perhaps grant him the possession
2719 Text |         future takes the course which may reasonably be expected,
2720 Text |              come to him, but that he may retire from the country
2721 Text |               men are afraid that you may take strong measures with
2722 Text |           been given pretty fully and may be regarded as finished;


The Sophist
     Part
2723 Intro|            traces of a similar temper may also be observed in the
2724 Intro|              philosophers, of whom we may say, without offence, that
2725 Intro|       apprehending that a proposition may be false as well as true.
2726 Intro|            But a teacher or statesman may be justly condemned, who
2727 Intro|          Examples of the latter class may also be found in a similar
2728 Intro|     contracted and enlarged. Passages may be quoted from Herodotus
2729 Intro|          purposes of comedy, Socrates may have been identified with
2730 Intro|               in supposing that Plato may have extended and envenomed
2731 Intro|               the meaning, or that he may have done the Sophists the
2732 Intro|              in these respects Athens may have degenerated; but, as
2733 Intro|           them. It is remarkable, and may be fairly set down to their
2734 Intro|                of which another trace may be thought to be discerned
2735 Intro|          division under which his art may be also supposed to fall,
2736 Intro|        company of abstractions, if we may speak in the metaphorical
2737 Intro|               a single structure, and may be compared to rocks which
2738 Intro|            the difficulty about Being may be equally the answer to
2739 Intro|                 and the like.~A doubt may be raised whether this account
2740 Intro|               the meaning of ‘other,’ may also imply ‘opposition.’
2741 Intro|              difference or opposition may be either total or partial:
2742 Intro|            partial: the not-beautiful may be other than the beautiful,
2743 Intro|           beautiful. And the negative may be a negation of fact or
2744 Intro|          negative classes to which he may be referred. This is certainly
2745 Intro|          ghost of ‘Not-being’; and we may attribute to him in a measure
2746 Intro|                And for this reason we may be inclined to do less than
2747 Intro|               approached himself, and may be criticizing an earlier
2748 Intro|              of his own doctrines. We may observe (1) that he professes
2749 Intro|         virtues are one and not many, may be supposed to contain a
2750 Intro|             has come to earth that he may visit the good and evil
2751 Intro|              the name Sophist, but we may not be equally agreed about
2752 Intro|              more obvious animal, who may be made the subject of logical
2753 Intro|      acquisitive art, and acquisition may be effected either by exchange
2754 Intro|          objects; and animate objects may be either land animals or
2755 Intro|               help of this example we may proceed to bring to light
2756 Intro|              youth abide. On land you may hunt tame animals, or you
2757 Intro|             hunt tame animals, or you may hunt wild animals. And man
2758 Intro|              is a tame animal, and he may be hunted either by force
2759 Intro|              many-sided creature, and may still be traced in another
2760 Intro|             exports; and the exporter may export either food for the
2761 Intro|           food for the mind, one kind may be termed the art of display,
2762 Intro|        selling learning; and learning may be a learning of the arts
2763 Intro|                The seller of the arts may be called an art-seller;
2764 Intro|              line, in which a Sophist may be traced. For is he less
2765 Intro|           manufactures himself?~Or he may be descended from the acquisitive
2766 Intro|              of animate bodies (which may be internal or external),
2767 Intro|              purification? Sophists I may not call them. Yet they
2768 Intro|         resemblance of the two, which may probably be disallowed hereafter.
2769 Intro|               understood? And that we may not be involved in the misunderstanding,
2770 Intro|               appearances. The latter may be illustrated by sculpture
2771 Intro|               be left in his hole. We may call him an image-maker
2772 Intro|               nothing but one? Or you may identify them; but then
2773 Intro|            consideration of being.~We may proceed now to the less
2774 Intro|              sake of the argument, we may assume them to be better
2775 Intro|           answering this question, we may as well reply for them,
2776 Intro|               suffer, though becoming may. And we rejoin: Does not
2777 Intro|               about not-being. And we may hope that any light which
2778 Intro|          which is thrown upon the one may extend to the other.~Leaving
2779 Intro|             others not, and that some may have communion with all,
2780 Intro|         admixture; and in this way we may perhaps find out a sense
2781 Intro|              sense in which not-being may be affirmed to have being.
2782 Intro|               existence of not-being, may still affirm that not-being
2783 Intro|           such thing as not-being, he may continue to argue that there
2784 Intro|               acquisitive. And now we may divide both on a different
2785 Intro|              forget that image-making may be an imitation of realities
2786 Intro|       phantastic. And this phantastic may be again divided into imitation
2787 Intro|        impersonations. And the latter may be either dissembling or
2788 Intro|       imitator, who has only opinion, may be either the simple imitator,
2789 Intro|               ignorance. And the last may be either a maker of long
2790 Intro|             is the Sophist, whose art may be traced as being the /
2791 Intro|         element, and that oppositions may be only differences. And
2792 Intro|               as at rest (Soph.); and may be described as a dialectical
2793 Intro|              must begin somewhere and may begin anywhere,—with outward
2794 Intro|              affirmed, only that they may be done away with. But Plato,
2795 Intro|             which I do not understand may be as noble; but the strength
2796 Intro|              the perusal of Hegel. We may truly apply to him the words
2797 Intro|               the Hegelian philosophy may help to dispel some errors
2798 Intro|            which seems to divide them may also be regarded as a difference
2799 Intro|           real to the ideal, and both may be conceived together under
2800 Intro|                The Hegelian dialectic may be also described as a movement
2801 Intro|              all its stages, the mind may come back again and review
2802 Intro|           life of the student. For it may encumber him without enlightening
2803 Intro|         enlightening his path; and it may weaken his natural faculties
2804 Intro|         difficulties, he seeks—and we may follow his example—to make
2805 Intro|   divisibility and continuousness. We may ponder over the thought
2806 Intro|           many one—a sum of units. We may be reminded that in nature
2807 Intro|     Arithmetic and Algebra. Again, we may liken the successive layers
2808 Intro|              circle. Or our attention may be drawn to ideas which
2809 Intro|         freedom, of idea and fact. We may be told to observe that
2810 Intro|            that differences of degree may be heightened into differences
2811 Intro|               differences of kind. We may remember the common remark
2812 Intro|               sides of a question. We may be recommended to look within
2813 Intro|              in our own minds; and we may be told to imagine the minds
2814 Intro|     acknowledges that the same number may be more or less in relation
2815 Intro|               in particular instances may vary, the IDEA of good is
2816 Intro|              comparison with Plato we may now consider the value of
2817 Intro|         contraries or contradictories may in certain cases be both
2818 Intro|              that two contradictories may be true, many questions
2819 Intro|              given circumstances they may be safely combined. In religion
2820 Intro|            time in a single line, and may be many things by turns
2821 Intro|               The danger is that they may be too much for us, and
2822 Intro|    unmetaphysical part of mankind, we may speak of it as due to the
2823 Intro|          which, in Platonic language, may be termed a ‘most gracious
2824 Intro|         notion of mind or thought, we may descend by a series of negations
2825 Intro| generalizations of sense. Or again we may begin with the simplest
2826 Intro|      comprehension. Of all words they may be truly said to be the
2827 Intro|            useful, but no further:—we may easily have too many of
2828 Intro|               ways in which our ideas may be connected. The triplets
2829 Intro|               can be conceived. There may be an evolution by degrees
2830 Intro|              the opposites themselves may vary from the least degree
2831 Intro|            immanent in the world, and may be only the invention of
2832 Intro|            wait to see what new forms may be developed out of our
2833 Intro|             were divine realities. We may almost say that whatever
2834 Intro|          light of other abstractions? May they not also find a nearer
2835 Intro|              example, new discoveries may not one day supersede our
2836 Intro|              is conditional upon what may be known in future ages
2837 Intro|           under his hand.~Hegelianism may be said to be a transcendental
2838 Intro|            the condition of the world may be indefinitely improved
2839 Intro|               poet or philosopher. We may need such a philosophy or
2840 Intro|      philosophies are simpler, and we may observe a progress in them;
2841 Intro|            Being. Again, the Eleatics may be regarded as developing
2842 Intro|               or ‘categories’ as they may be termed, have been handed
2843 Intro|          relations with the other. We may fairly doubt whether the
2844 Intro|        idiomatic German words. But it may be doubted whether the attempt
2845 Intro|            that the meaning of a word may have nothing to do with
2846 Intro|              denied, such an analysis may be justified from the point
2847 Intro|           expressed. Such an analysis may be of value as a corrective
2848 Intro|     necessarily be general, and there may be a use with a view to
2849 Intro|     expression of his time, and there may be peculiar difficulties
2850 Intro|          which he cannot overcome. He may be out of harmony with his
2851 Intro|           during which the human race may yet endure, do we suppose
2852 Intro|           proportions human knowledge may attain even within the short
2853 Intro|              how this universal frame may be animated by a divine
2854 Intro|            kingdom of ideas. Whatever may be thought of his own system
2855 Intro|               hitherto unemployed. We may not be able to agree with
2856 Intro|         divine idea or nature. But we may acknowledge that the great
2857 Intro|              philosophy, but still we may regard it as a very important
2858 Intro|             the history of philosophy may be almost said to have been
2859 Intro|            another school of thinkers may be traced to his speculations.
2860 Text |               and evil among men. And may not your companion be one
2861 Text |             Capital, my friend! and I may add that they are almost
2862 Text |              same time, I fear that I may seem rude and ungracious
2863 Text |             tire of the argument, you may complain of your friends
2864 Text |            art of imitation—all these may be appropriately called
2865 Text |            appears to be an art which may be called acquisitive.~THEAETETUS:
2866 Text |         STRANGER: And the acquisitive may be subdivided into two parts:
2867 Text |             by force of word or deed, may be termed conquest?~THEAETETUS:
2868 Text |              been said.~STRANGER: And may not conquest be again subdivided?~
2869 Text |             How?~STRANGER: Open force may be called fighting, and
2870 Text |            fighting, and secret force may have the general name of
2871 Text |              and other small matters, may be omitted; the hunting
2872 Text |           hunting after living things may be called animal hunting.~
2873 Text |          STRANGER: And animal hunting may be truly said to have two
2874 Text |              And this sort of hunting may be further divided also
2875 Text |           anything to prevent egress, may be rightly called an enclosure.~
2876 Text |          nooses, creels, and the like may all be termed ‘enclosures’?~
2877 Text |            this first kind of capture may be called by us capture
2878 Text |             summed up under one name, may be called striking, unless
2879 Text |          animals. But if you like you may say that there are no tame
2880 Text |             is not among them; or you may say that man is a tame animal
2881 Text |               the art of conversation may be called in one word the
2882 Text |              And of persuasion, there may be said to be two kinds?~
2883 Text |         reward in the shape of money, may be fairly called by another
2884 Text |              now, Theaetetus, his art may be traced as a branch of
2885 Text |             instruction or amusement;—may not he who takes them about
2886 Text |             THEAETETUS: To be sure he may.~STRANGER: And would you
2887 Text |              merchandise of the soul, may not one part be fairly termed
2888 Text |         friend the Sophist, whose art may now be traced from the art
2889 Text |             true.~STRANGER: And there may be a third reappearance
2890 Text |           reappearance of him;—for he may have settled down in a city,
2891 Text |           settled down in a city, and may fabricate as well as buy
2892 Text |          those of others, as the case may be, and in either way sells
2893 Text |               once more whether there may not be yet another aspect
2894 Text |            contest of bodily strength may be properly called by some
2895 Text |               war is one of words, it may be termed controversy?~THEAETETUS:
2896 Text |             STRANGER: And controversy may be of two kinds.~THEAETETUS:
2897 Text |              majority of his hearers, may be fairly termed loquacity:
2898 Text |     expression.~STRANGER: And any one may see that purification is
2899 Text |         purifications of bodies which may with propriety be comprehended
2900 Text |              about fine words, if she may be only allowed to have
2901 Text |            away of evil from the soul may be properly called purification?~
2902 Text |               they?~STRANGER: The one may be compared to disease in
2903 Text |           various kinds of ignorance, may not instruction be rightly
2904 Text |          which is quite separate, and may be weighed in the scale
2905 Text |        advising them; which varieties may be correctly included under
2906 Text |              while we are resting, we may reckon up in how many forms
2907 Text |        popular form, and he who likes may learn.~THEAETETUS: I suppose
2908 Text |               perhaps your young eyes may see things which to our
2909 Text |              Certainly.~STRANGER: And may there not be supposed to
2910 Text |                although, at my age, I may be one of those who see
2911 Text |             disposed to think that he may have a true knowledge of
2912 Text |             being other is also like, may we not fairly call a likeness
2913 Text |        THEAETETUS: Yes.~STRANGER: And may we not, as I did just now,
2914 Text |              they profess to be like? May we not call these ‘appearances,’
2915 Text |              Of course.~STRANGER: And may we not fairly call the sort
2916 Text |             hasty answer?~THEAETETUS: May I ask to what you are referring?~
2917 Text |           STRANGER: To that which is, may be attributed some other
2918 Text |    Nevertheless, we maintain that you may not and ought not to attribute
2919 Text |              as self-evident, lest we may have fallen into some confusion,
2920 Text |             so serious. Yet one thing may be said of them without
2921 Text |     perplexity about ‘being,’ and yet may fancy that when anybody
2922 Text |               about not-being. But we may be; equally ignorant of
2923 Text |                STRANGER: And the same may be said of all the terms
2924 Text |         consideration of most of them may be deferred; but we had
2925 Text |              Yet that which has parts may have the attribute of unity
2926 Text |            way being all and a whole, may be one?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
2927 Text |       STRANGER: But surely that which may be present or may be absent
2928 Text |               which may be present or may be absent will be admitted
2929 Text |              they ‘are.’ Perhaps they may be in a difficulty; and
2930 Text |               a possibility that they may accept a notion of ours
2931 Text |          perhaps we, as well as they, may one day change our minds;
2932 Text |            but, for the present, this may be regarded as the understanding
2933 Text |        Perhaps your ears, Theaetetus, may fail to catch their answer,
2934 Text |         having made these admissions, may we not be justly asked the
2935 Text |            able to see neither, there may still be a chance of steering
2936 Text |           communion of some with some may be illustrated by the case
2937 Text |       STRANGER: Well, the philosopher may hereafter be more fully
2938 Text |               being and not-being, we may at least not fall short
2939 Text |           enquiry, if peradventure we may be allowed to assert the
2940 Text |           Scarcely.~STRANGER: Then we may suppose the same to be a
2941 Text |       STRANGER: Let us proceed, then. May we not say that motion is
2942 Text |           just now.~STRANGER: Then we may without fear contend that
2943 Text |              them, in like manner, we may truly say that they are
2944 Text |           existent.~THEAETETUS: So we may assume.~STRANGER: Every
2945 Text |            STRANGER: And being itself may be said to be other than
2946 Text |          Certainly.~STRANGER: Then we may infer that being is not,
2947 Text |      communion of ideas], and then he may proceed to argue with what
2948 Text |           STRANGER: And the not-great may be said to exist, equally
2949 Text |              True.~STRANGER: The same may be said of other things;
2950 Text |              to one another, is, if I may venture to say so, as truly
2951 Text |         existence as any other class? May I not say with confidence
2952 Text |            have long said good-bye—it may or may not be, and may or
2953 Text |               said good-bye—it may or may not be, and may or may not
2954 Text |             it may or may not be, and may or may not be capable of
2955 Text |             or may not be, and may or may not be capable of definition.
2956 Text |             that when we find them we may find also that they have
2957 Text |            out the connexion of them, may thus prove that falsehood
2958 Text |             opinion, in order that we may have clearer grounds for
2959 Text |         direction in which the answer may be expected.~THEAETETUS:
2960 Text |            issue is whether all names may be connected with one another,
2961 Text |              meaning when in sequence may be connected, but that words
2962 Text |              and false opinion, there may be imitations of real existences,
2963 Text |              mind an art of deception may arise.~THEAETETUS: Quite
2964 Text |       difference or peculiar. Then we may exhibit him in his true
2965 Text |              Very good.~STRANGER: You may remember that all art was
2966 Text |         STRANGER: Every power, as you may remember our saying originally,
2967 Text |            that, owing to my youth, I may often waver in my view,
2968 Text |               the two remaining parts may be called the making of


The Statesman
     Part
2969 Intro|       Parmenides, and the Sophist, we may observe the tendency of
2970 Intro|            digressions. His own image may be used as a motto of his
2971 Intro|           cycle of human history, and may again exist when the gods
2972 Intro|              which dissimilar natures may be united in marriage and
2973 Intro|            the Politicus or Statesman may be briefly sketched as follows: (
2974 Intro|               of society.~The outline may be filled up as follows:—~
2975 Intro|            the adviser of a physician may be said to have medical
2976 Intro|           master of a large household may be compared to the ruler
2977 Intro|               But theoretical science may be a science either of judging,
2978 Intro|              some object, and objects may be divided into living and
2979 Intro|             tending of living animals may be either a tending of individuals,
2980 Intro|               a herdsman, and his art may be called either the art
2981 Intro|             concerned. And land-herds may be divided into walking
2982 Intro|          pedestrian. At this point we may take a longer or a shorter
2983 Intro|              walking, herding animal, may be divided into two classes—
2984 Intro|             hornless; and these again may be subdivided into animals
2985 Intro|          bird-taker and the king, who may be seen scampering after
2986 Intro|           famous old tradition, which may amuse as well as instruct
2987 Intro|             discredited, and yet they may be proved by internal evidence.
2988 Intro|             Enough of the myth, which may show us two errors of which
2989 Intro|               remodelled the name, we may subdivide as before, first
2990 Intro|          shepherd or manager. Then we may subdivide the human art
2991 Intro|          reducing them. Or our mythus may be compared to a picture,
2992 Intro|              In order that our labour may not seem to be lost, I must
2993 Intro|            only applying to the arts, may be some day required with
2994 Intro|   demonstration of absolute truth.~We may now divide this art of measurement
2995 Intro|            this notion of theirs they may very likely be right, are
2996 Intro|              in the world; from these may be parted off (2) vessels
2997 Intro|             other playthings, as they may be fitly called, for they
2998 Intro|           coins, seals, stamps, which may with a little violence be
2999 Intro|        themselves. I admit that there may be something strange in
3000 Intro|              three into six. Monarchy may be divided into royalty