Plato, Cratylus, section 401b

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[401b]

Socrates
Shall we, then, begin with Hestia, according to custom?

Hermogenes
That is the proper thing.

Socrates
Then what would you say the man had in mind who gave Hestia her name?

Hermogenes
By Zeus, I think that is no more easy question than the other.

Socrates
At any rate, my dear Hermogenes, the first men who gave names were no ordinary persons, but high thinkers and great talkers.

Hermogenes
What then?

Socrates
I am sure the names were given by men of that kind; and if foreign names are examined,

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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