YOUNG SOCRATES: How was that?

STRANGER: All other herdsmen 'rear' their herds, but this is not a

suitable term to apply to the Statesman; we should use a name which is

common to them all.

YOUNG SOCRATES: True, if there be such a name.

STRANGER: Why, is not 'care' of herds applicable to all? For this

implies no feeding, or any special duty; if we say either 'tending' the

herds, or 'managing' the herds, or 'having the care' of them, the same

word will include all, and then we may wrap up the Statesman with the

rest, as the argument seems to require.

YOUNG SOCRATES: Quite right; but how shall we take the next step in the

division?

STRANGER: As before we divided the art of 'rearing' herds accordingly as

they were land or water herds, winged and wingless, mixing or not

mixing the breed, horned and hornless, so we may divide by these same

differences the 'tending' of herds, comprehending in our definition the

kingship of to-day and the rule of Cronos.

YOUNG SOCRATES: That is clear; but I still ask, what is to follow.

STRANGER: If the word had been 'managing' herds, instead of feeding or