STRANGER: I think that we may have a little YOUNG SOCRATES: I suppose you to mean the amusement; there is a famous tale, of which a good token of the birth of the golden lamb.
portion may with advantage be interwoven, and then we may resume our series of divisions, and STRANGER: No, not that; but another part of the proceed in the old path until we arrive at the de-story, which tells how the sun and the stars once sired summit. Shall we do as I say?
rose in the west, and set in the east, and that the god reversed their motion, and gave them that which YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.
they now have as a testimony to the right of Atreus.
STRANGER: Listen, then, to a tale which a child YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes; there is that legend also.
would love to hear; and you are not too old for childish amusement.
STRANGER: Again, we have been often told of the reign of Cronos.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Let me hear.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes, very often.
STRANGER: There did really happen, and will again happen, like many other events of which ancient tra-STRANGER: Did you ever hear that the men of dition has preserved the record, the portent which is former times were earth-born, and not begotten of traditionally said to have occurred in the quarrel of one another?
Atreus and Thyestes. You have heard, no doubt, and remember what they say happened at that time?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes, that is another old tradition.