Plato, Cratylus, section 388d

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View text chunked by:

text : page
text : section

Table of Contents:

Κρατύλος

Θεαίτητος

Σοφιστής

Πολιτικός

view as XML

Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics

[388δ]

Σωκράτης
τῷ τίνος δὲ ἔργῳ ὁ τρυπητὴς καλῶς χρήσεται ὅταν τῷ τρυπάνῳ χρῆται;

Ἑρμογένης
τῷ τοῦ χαλκέως.

Σωκράτης
ἆρ᾽ οὖν πᾶς χαλκεὺς ἢ ὁ τὴν τέχνην ἔχων;

Ἑρμογένης
ὁ τὴν τέχνην.

Σωκράτης
εἶεν. τῷ δὲ τίνος ἔργῳ ὁ διδασκαλικὸς χρήσεται ὅταν τῷ ὀνόματι χρῆται;

Ἑρμογένης
οὐδὲ τοῦτ᾽ ἔχω.

Σωκράτης
οὐδὲ τοῦτό γ᾽ ἔχεις εἰπεῖν, τίς παραδίδωσιν ἡμῖν τὰ ὀνόματα οἷς χρώμεθα;

Ἑρμογένης
οὐ δῆτα.

Σωκράτης
ἆρ᾽ οὐχὶ ὁ νόμος δοκεῖ σοι εἶναι ὁ παραδιδοὺς αὐτά;

Ἑρμογένης
ἔοικεν.

Plato. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet. Oxford University Press. 1903.

The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.

view as XML

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.