The Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides, and Timaeus ... / Translated ... by Thomas Taylor.

  • Plato
Date:
1793
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    for iing and He£lor nearly fignify the fame, fince both thefe names are royal. For whoever is a king, is alfo doubtlefs a HeBor; fince fuch a one evidently rules over, pojjeffes, and has, that of which he is the king. Or do I appear to you to fay nothing to the pUrpofe, but deceive myfelf, in thinking, as through certain vefliges, to touch upon die c-pinion of Horner irei^edling the reftitude of names ? ' Herm. By no means, by Jupiter ! But perhaps you lu fome degree apprehend his meaning. Soc. For it is juft, as it appears to me, to call the olF- fpring of a lion, a lion, and the offspring of a horfe, ^ horfe. I do not fay, that this Ought to be the cafe when fomething monftrous is produced from a horfe, and •which is different from a horfe ; but only when the oft- fpriiig i's a natural production. For if the natural progeny of an ox fhould generate a horfe, the offspring ought not to be called a calf, but a colt. [And if a horfe, contrary 16 nature, fhould generate a calf, the offspring ought not to be called a colt, but a calf*.] And again, if from a man * A great part of this fentence within the crotchets is omitted in the Greek text of all the printed editions of Plato ; and a great part likewlfe of the preceding fentence is wanting : ihough FIcInus, aS is evident from his verfion, found the whole complete In the manufcript, from which he made his tranflatloii. In the Greek, there is nothing more than, escv ^00; ly.yow <pvcst rn-'-rroi ratjst (pva-iv nyjn a ttwXov Inftead iof which we ought to read, ixv iSio; cr.yo.oy ipva-ti iTrmy tikti a fxocr- xXtiteov, 'Km'Kvi, r.a.i to.y (pvffty Ttxip jj.os'^oy, a VKTyov K?.»jTEcy, But though, without this emendation, the paffage is perfedl nonfenfe, yet this has not been difcovered by C 2 any