Plato, Cratylus, section 397a

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[397a] who is skilled in that kind of purifying.

Hermogenes
I agree, for I should be very glad to hear the rest of the talk about names.

Socrates
Very well. Then since we have outlined a general plan of investigation, where shall we begin, that we may discover whether the names themselves will bear witness that they are not at all distributed at haphazard, but have a certain correctness?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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