STRANGER: There will be no difficulty, as we are near the end; if we had

been at the beginning, or in the middle, I should have demurred to your

request; but now, in accordance with your desire, let us begin with the

longer way; while we are fresh, we shall get on better. And now attend

to the division.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Let me hear.

STRANGER: The tame walking herding animals are distributed by nature

into two classes.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Upon what principle?

STRANGER: The one grows horns; and the other is without horns.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Clearly.

STRANGER: Suppose that you divide the science which manages pedestrian

animals into two corresponding parts, and define them; for if you try to

invent names for them, you will find the intricacy too great.

YOUNG SOCRATES: How must I speak of them, then?

STRANGER: In this way: let the science of managing pedestrian animals

be divided into two parts, and one part assigned to the horned herd, and

the other to the herd that has no horns.

Statesman