Plato, Theaetetus, section 202e

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[202e] is knowable.

Theaetetus
Is that not right?

Socrates
We are sure to find out, for we have as hostages the examples which he who said all this used in his argument.

Theaetetus
What examples?

Socrates
The elements in writing, the letters of the alphabet, and their combinations, the syllables¹; or do you think the author of the statements we are discussing had something else in view?

Theaetetus
No; those are what he had in view.

1 Στοιχεῖον and συλλαβή originally general terms for element and combination, became the common words for letter and syllable.

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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