Plato, Cratylus, section 413d

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[413d] But I think the name—and that was the subject of our investigation—was given for the reasons I have mentioned.

Hermogenes
I think, Socrates, you must have heard this from some one and are not inventing it yourself.

Socrates
And how about the rest of my talk?

Hermogenes
I do not at all think you had heard that.

Socrates
Listen then; perhaps I may deceive you into thinking that all I am going to say is my own. What remains to consider after justice? I think we have not yet discussed courage.

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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