YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.
STRANGER: There is surely no need to ask which STRANGER: The art of managing the walking ani-of these two contains the royal art, for it is evident mal has to be further divided, just as you might to everybody.
halve an even number.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Clearly.
STRANGER: Any one can divide the herds which STRANGER: Let me note that here appear in view feed on dry land?
two ways to that part or class which the argument aims at reaching,—the one a speedier way, which YOUNG SOCRATES: How would you divide them?
cuts off a small portion and leaves a large; the other agrees better with the principle which we were lay-STRANGER: I should distinguish between those ing down, that as far as we can we should divide in which fly and those which walk.
the middle; but it is longer. We can take either of them, whichever we please.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Most true.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Cannot we have both ways?
STRANGER: And where shall we look for the political animal? Might not an idiot, so to speak, know STRANGER: Together? What a thing to ask! but, that he is a pedestrian?
if you take them in turn, you clearly may.