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Certainly, I said: the former mine,
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298a
the latter his.
Then surely,
he went on,
Chaeredemus was other than father?
Than mine, at any rate, I said.
Why then, he was father while being other than father. Or are you the same as the stone?
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I fear you may prove that of me, I said, though I do not feel like it.
Then are you other than the stone?
Other, I must say.
Then of course,
he went on,
if you are other than stone, you are not stone? And if you are other than gold, you are not gold?
Quite so.
Hence Chaeredemus,
he said,
being other than father,
298b
cannot be father.
It seems, I said, that he is not a father.
No, for I presume,
interposed Euthydemus,
that if Chaeredemus is a father Sophroniscus in his turn, being other than a father, is not a father; so that you, Socrates, are fatherless.
Here Ctesippus took it up, observing:
And your father too, is he not in just the same plight? Is he other than my father?
Not in the slightest
, said Euthydemus.
What,
asked the other,
is he the same?
The same, to be sure.
I should not like to think he was: but tell me, Euthydemus,
298c
is he my father only, or everybody elses too?
Everybody elses too,
he replied;
or do you suppose that the same man, being a father, can be no father?
I did suppose so,
said Ctesippus.
Well,
said the other,
and that a thing being gold could be not gold? Or being a man, not man?
Perhaps, Euthydemus,
said Ctesippus,
you are knotting flax with cotton,[*] as they say: for it is a strange result that you state, if your father is father of all.
He is, though,
was the reply.
Of all men, do you mean?
asked Ctesippus,
or of horses too,
298d
and all other animals?
Of all,
he said.
And is your mother a mother in the same way?
My mother too.
And is your mother a mother of sea-urchins?
Yes, and yours is also,
he replied.
So then you are a brother of the gudgeons and whelps and porkers.
Yes, and so are you,
he said.
Then your father is a boar and a dog.
And so is yours,
he said.
Yes,
said Dionysodorus,
and it will take you but a moment, if you will answer me, Ctesippus, to acknowledge all this. Just tell me, have you a dog?
Yes, a real rogue,
said Ctesippus.
298e
Has he got puppies?
Yes, a set of rogues like him.
Then is the dog their father?
Yes, indeed; I saw him with my own eyes covering the bitch.
Well now, is not the dog yours?
Certainly,
he said.
Thus he is a father, and yours, and accordingly the dog turns out to be your father, and you a brother of whelps.
Hereupon Dionysodorus struck in again quickly, lest Ctesippus should get a word in before him:
Answer me just one more little point: do you beat this dog?
Ctesippus laughed and said:
My word, yes; since I cannot beat you!
So you beat your own father?
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