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[290e] Won't you tell me who he is?

Socrates
You would not know him if I should tell you his name.

Hippias
But even now I know that he is an ignoramus.

Socrates
He is a great nuisance, Hippias but yet, what shall we say? Which of the two ladles shall we say is appropriate to the soup and the pot? Is it not evidently the one of fig wood? For it is likely to make the soup smell better, and besides, my friend, it would not break the pot, thereby spilling the soup, putting out the fire, and making those who are to be entertained go without their splendid soup; whereas the golden ladle would do all those things,


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