Euthydemus
   Part
 1 Intro|           eager eyes of his lover Ctesippus, and others. The performance
 2 Intro|    friends you must all be!’~Here Ctesippus, the lover of Cleinias,
 3 Intro|     pacifies him with a joke, and Ctesippus then says that he is not
 4 Intro|        there be a contradiction?’ Ctesippus is unable to reply.~Socrates
 5 Intro|         have no sense or meaning. Ctesippus again breaks out, and again
 6 Intro|        etc?’ ‘Yes.’ The sceptical Ctesippus would like to have some
 7 Intro|         of dogs and sea-monsters. Ctesippus makes merry with the consequences
 8 Intro|          wrong places. ‘No,’ says Ctesippus, ‘there cannot be too much
 9 Intro|          a stater in either eye?’ Ctesippus, imitating the new wisdom,
10 Intro|          successfully retorted by Ctesippus, to the great delight of
11 Intro|           in which Socrates, like Ctesippus, in self-defence borrows
12 Intro|        before 390 at the soonest. Ctesippus, who is the lover of Cleinias,
13 Text |         Euthydemus, Dionysodorus, Ctesippus.~SCENE: The Lyceum.~CRITO:
14 Text |           lovers, one of whom was Ctesippus the Paeanian, a well-bred
15 Text |           the youth Cleinias, and Ctesippus: and here are several others,
16 Text |           to gather round us. Now Ctesippus was sitting at some distance
17 Text |          eager to learn: to which Ctesippus and all of them with one
18 Text |         to be, or to perish!~When Ctesippus heard this he got very angry (
19 Text |        replied: And do you think, Ctesippus, that it is possible to
20 Text |          to tell a lie?~Yes, said Ctesippus; I should be mad to say
21 Text |           and no other?~Yes, said Ctesippus.~And that is a distinct
22 Text |        lie.~Yes, Euthydemus, said Ctesippus; but in saying this, he
23 Text |        nowhere?~I think not, said Ctesippus.~Well, but do rhetoricians,
24 Text |         is.~Yes, Euthydemus, said Ctesippus; but he speaks of things
25 Text |          as they really are.~Why, Ctesippus, said Dionysodorus, do you
26 Text |          To be sure they do, said Ctesippus; and they speak coldly of
27 Text |    dialectician.~You are abusive, Ctesippus, said Dionysodorus, you
28 Text |         joke with him and said: O Ctesippus, I think that we must allow
29 Text |           will only make me good.~Ctesippus said: And I, Socrates, am
30 Text |        any one else.~Indeed, said Ctesippus; then now you may hear me
31 Text |          Of their existence.~Yes, Ctesippus, and we just now proved,
32 Text |           does that signify? said Ctesippus; you and I may contradict
33 Text |          him who speaks not?~Here Ctesippus was silent; and I in my
34 Text |         now any more than of old.~Ctesippus said: Men of Chios, Thurii,
35 Text |       again endeavoured to soothe Ctesippus, and said to him: To you,
36 Text |          and said to him: To you, Ctesippus, I must repeat what I said
37 Text |           may have forgotten, and Ctesippus was the real answerer.~CRITO:
38 Text |         the real answerer.~CRITO: Ctesippus! nonsense.~SOCRATES: All
39 Text |         No to that?~By Zeus, said Ctesippus, interrupting, I only wish
40 Text |       things?~Certainly not, said Ctesippus: you must further tell us
41 Text |           rest. They fancied that Ctesippus was making game of them,
42 Text |           all things. For at last Ctesippus began to throw off all restraint;
43 Text |   Socrates, are without a father.~Ctesippus, here taking up the argument,
44 Text |            I did so imagine, said Ctesippus.~And do you suppose that
45 Text |        materia,’ Euthydemus, said Ctesippus, and you had better take
46 Text |           What, of men only, said Ctesippus, or of horses and of all
47 Text |         same admissions from you, Ctesippus. You say that you have a
48 Text |          a villain of a one, said Ctesippus.~And he has puppies?~Yes,
49 Text |        interposing, in order that Ctesippus might not get in his word:
50 Text |          word: You beat this dog?~Ctesippus said, laughing, Indeed I
51 Text |        reason to beat yours, said Ctesippus; what could he have been
52 Text |           But neither he nor you, Ctesippus, have any need of much good.~
53 Text |       other man; for tell me now, Ctesippus, if you think it good or
54 Text |          not be too much for him?~Ctesippus said: Quite so, Euthydemus,
55 Text |         possible?~Very true, said Ctesippus; and do you think, Euthydemus,
56 Text |         to the previous answer of Ctesippus and said:—~Do you not think
57 Text |           a good thing?~Yes, said Ctesippus, and the more the better.~
58 Text |        eye?~Yes, Euthydemus, said Ctesippus; and the Scythians reckon
59 Text |           see to any extent, said Ctesippus.~What can they see?~Nothing;
60 Text |    Dionysodorus.~Impossible, said Ctesippus.~Or a speaking of the silent?~
61 Text |          speaking (I thought that Ctesippus was put upon his mettle
62 Text |   speaking are silent.~What, said Ctesippus; then all things are not
63 Text |      those which speak.~Nay, said Ctesippus, but the question which
64 Text | non-plussed’ at that answer.~Here Ctesippus, as his manner was, burst
65 Text |     Cleinias, whose laughter made Ctesippus ten times as uproarious;
66 Text |         Crito, and lay prostrate. Ctesippus came to the rescue.~Bravo,
67 Text |      Dionysodorus.~Poseidon, said Ctesippus, what awful distinctions.
68 Text |          any one. I observed that Ctesippus learned to imitate you in


Lysis
   Part
69 Intro|         first of the dry, caustic Ctesippus, of whom Socrates professes
70 Text |    Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus.~SCENE: A newly-erected
71 Text |        the son of Hieronymus, and Ctesippus the Paeanian, and a company
72 Text |         he blushed more and more.~Ctesippus said: I like to see you
73 Text |           in his right mind, said Ctesippus; he is talking nonsense,
74 Text |        approaching your fair one.~Ctesippus will be able to tell you,
75 Text |           them.~Yes, indeed, said Ctesippus; I know only too well; and
76 Text |          if you will only go with Ctesippus into the Palaestra, and
77 Text |         come: but if he does not, Ctesippus with whom he is familiar,
78 Text |           I said. Thereupon I led Ctesippus into the Palaestra, and
79 Text |        the court, and when he saw Ctesippus and myself, was going to
80 Text |        terrible fellow—a pupil of Ctesippus. And there is Ctesippus
81 Text |           Ctesippus. And there is Ctesippus himself: do you see him?~
82 Text |         must, I replied.~Hereupon Ctesippus complained that we were


Phaedo
   Part
83 Intro|         Megara (compare Theaet.), Ctesippus, Antisthenes, Menexenus,
84 Intro|         Other persons, Menexenus, Ctesippus, Lysis, are old friends;
85 Text |  Aeschines, Antisthenes; likewise Ctesippus of the deme of Paeania,