Plato, Cratylus, section 400a

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[400a] to Euthyphro and his followers; for I think they would despise this attempt and would consider it cheap talk. Now see if you like the new one.

Hermogenes
I am listening.

Socrates
Do you think there is anything which holds and carries the whole nature of the body, so that it lives and moves, except the soul?

Hermogenes
No; nothing.

Socrates
Well, and do you not believe the doctrine of Anaxagoras, that it is mind or soul which orders and holds the nature of all things?

Hermogenes
I do.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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Commentary references to this page (1):
- James Adam, The Republic of Plato, 1.353D
Cross-references to this page (1):
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, Continuity and Change in Athenian Social and Intellectual History
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (2):
- LSJ, ὀχέω
- LSJ, ψυ_χ-ή