STRANGER: Shall we break up this hornless herd STRANGER: And of which has the Statesman into sections, and endeavour to assign to him what charge,—of the mixed or of the unmixed race?
is his?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Clearly of the unmixed.
YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.
STRANGER: I suppose that we must divide this STRANGER: Shall we distinguish them by their again as before.
having or not having cloven feet, or by their mixing or not mixing the breed? You know what I mean.
YOUNG SOCRATES: We must.
YOUNG SOCRATES: What?
STRANGER: Every tame and herding animal has now been split up, with the exception of two spe-STRANGER: I mean that horses and asses natu-cies; for I hardly think that dogs should be reck-rally breed from one another.
oned among gregarious animals.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly not; but how shall we divide the two remaining species?
STRANGER: But the remainder of the hornless herd of tame animals will not mix the breed.
STRANGER: There is a measure of difference which may be appropriately employed by you and YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.
Theaetetus, who are students of geometry.