Plato, Cratylus, section 417d

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[417d]

Hermogenes
What shall be our explanations of the opposites of these?

Socrates
Those of them that are mere negatives, need, I think, no discussion.

Hermogenes
Which are those?

Socrates
Disadvantageous, useless, unprofitable, and ungainful.

Hermogenes
True.

Socrates
But βλαβερόν (harmful) and ζημιῶδες (hurtful) do need it.

Hermogenes
Yes.

Socrates
And βλαβερόν means that which harms (βλάπτον) the flow (ῥοῦν);

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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