YOUNG SOCRATES: Then I should like to have STRANGER: Suppose that you divide the science them in turn.
which manages pedestrian animals into two corresponding parts, and define them; for if you try to STRANGER: There will be no difficulty, as we are invent names for them, you will find the intricacy near the end; if we had been at the beginning, or in too great.
the middle, I should have demurred to your request; but now, in accordance with your desire, let us be-YOUNG SOCRATES: How must I speak of them, gin with the longer way; while we are fresh, we shall then?
get on better. And now attend to the division.
STRANGER: In this way: let the science of manag-YOUNG SOCRATES: Let me hear.
ing pedestrian animals be divided into two parts, and one part assigned to the horned herd, and the STRANGER: The tame walking herding animals are other to the herd that has no horns.
distributed by nature into two classes.
YOUNG SOCRATES: All that you say has been YOUNG SOCRATES: Upon what principle?
abundantly proved, and may therefore be assumed.
STRANGER: The one grows horns; and the other STRANGER: The king is clearly the shepherd of a is without horns.
polled herd, who have no horns.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Clearly.
YOUNG SOCRATES: That is evident.