STRANGER: Why, because they are compelled to use the words 'to be,'

apart,' 'from others,' 'in itself,' and ten thousand more, which they

cannot give up, but must make the connecting links of discourse; and

therefore they do not require to be refuted by others, but their enemy,

as the saying is, inhabits the same house with them; they are always

carrying about with them an adversary, like the wonderful ventriloquist,

Eurycles, who out of their own bellies audibly contradicts them.

THEAETETUS: Precisely so; a very true and exact illustration.

STRANGER: And now, if we suppose that all things have the power of

communion with one another--what will follow?

THEAETETUS: Even I can solve that riddle.

STRANGER: How?

THEAETETUS: Why, because motion itself would be at rest, and rest again

in motion, if they could be attributed to one another.

STRANGER: But this is utterly impossible.

THEAETETUS: Of course.

STRANGER: Then only the third hypothesis remains.

Sophist