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that this is what you are doing.Why, asked Dionysodorus, may there not be a speaking of the silent?By no means whatever, replied Ctesippus.Nor a silence of speaking?Still less, he said.Now, when you speak of stones and timbers and irons, are you not speaking of the silent?Not if I walk by a smithy, for there, as they say, the irons speak and cry aloud, when they are touched; so here your wisdom has seduced you into nonsense. But come, you have still to propound me your second point,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.
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