justly asked the same questions which we ourselves were asking of those

who said that all was hot and cold?

THEAETETUS: What were they? Will you recall them to my mind?

STRANGER: To be sure I will, and I will remind you of them, by putting

the same questions to you which I did to them, and then we shall get on.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: Would you not say that rest and motion are in the most entire

opposition to one another?

THEAETETUS: Of course.

STRANGER: And yet you would say that both and either of them equally

are?

THEAETETUS: I should.

STRANGER: And when you admit that both or either of them are, do you

mean to say that both or either of them are in motion?

THEAETETUS: Certainly not.

STRANGER: Or do you wish to imply that they are both at rest, when you

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