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64

Plato

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.