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Uranus (Alaska, United States) (search for this): text Crat., section 396c
looking at the things above (o(rw= ta\ a)/nw), and the astronomers say, Hermogenes, that from this looking people acquire a pure mind, and Uranus is correctly named. If I remembered the genealogy of Hesiod and the still earlier ancestors of the gods he mentions, I would have gone on examining the correctness of their names until I had made a complete trial whether this wisdom which has suddenly come to me, I know not whence,
Greece (Greece) (search for this): text Crat., section 397c
and perhaps some of them were given by a power more divine than is that of men.HermogenesI think you are right, Socrates.SocratesThen is it not proper to begin with the gods and see how the gods are rightly called by that name?HermogenesThat is reasonable.SocratesSomething of this sort, then, is what I suspect: I think the earliest men in Greece believed only in those gods in whom many foreigners believe today
Pluto (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): text Crat., section 402d
and filtered (h)qou/menon) represents a spring, and the name Tethys is compounded of those two words.HermogenesThat is very neat, Socrates.SocratesOf course it is. But what comes next? Zeus we discussed before.HermogenesYes.SocratesLet us, then, speak of his brothers, Poseidon and Pluto, including also the other name of the latter.HermogenesBy all means.SocratesI think Poseidon's name was given by him who first applied it,
Pluto (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): text Crat., section 403a
Or it may be that from his shaking he was called the Shaker (o( sei/wn), and the pi and delta are additions. As for Pluto, he was so named as the giver of wealth (plou=tos), because wealth comes up from below out of the earth. And Hades—I fancy most people think that this is a name of the Invisible (a)eidh/s), so they are afraid and call him Pluto. Or it may be that from his shaking he was called the Shaker (o( sei/wn), and the pi and delta are additions. As for Pluto, he was so named as the giver of wealth (plou=tos), because wealth comes up from below out of the earth. And Hades—I fancy most people think that this is a name of the Invisible (a)eidh/s), so they are afraid and call him Pluto
Pluto (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): text Crat., section 403e
so beautiful, as it appears, are the words which Hades has the power to speak; and from this point of view this god is a perfect sophist and a great benefactor of those in his realm, he who also bestows such great blessings upon us who are on earth; such abundance surrounds him there below, and for this reason he is called Pluto. Then, too, he refuses to consort with men while they have bodies, but only accepts their society
Pallas (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): text Crat., section 406d
from her birth out of the foam (a)frou=).HermogenesBut surely you, as an Athenian, will not forget Athena, nor Hephaestus and Ares.SocratesThat is not likely.HermogenesNo.SocratesIt is easy to tell the reason of one of her two names.HermogenesWhat name?SocratesWe call her Pallas, you know.HermogenesYes, of course.SocratesThose of us are right, I fancy,
Pallas (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): text Crat., section 407a
in the hands is called shaking (pa/llein) and being shaken, or dancing and being danced.HermogenesYes, certainly.SocratesSo that is the reason she is called Pallas.HermogenesAnd rightly called so. But what can you say of her other name?SocratesYou mean Athena?HermogenesYes.SocratesThat is a weightier matter, my friend. The ancients seem to have had the same belief about Athena as the interpreters of Homer have now;
Phaestus (Greece) (search for this): text Crat., section 407c
by calling her Ethonoe; and then he himself or others afterwards improved the name, as they thought, and called her Athenaa.HermogenesAnd how do you explain Hephaestus?SocratesYou ask about “the noble master of light”?HermogenesTo be sure.SocratesHephaestus is Phaestus, with the eta added by attraction; anyone could see that, I should think.HermogenesVery likely, unless some other explanation occurs to you, as it probably will.SocratesTo prevent that, ask about Ares.HermogenesI do a
Athens (Greece) (search for this): text Crat., section 429e
but not to say it?CratylusNeither to speak nor to say it.SocratesNor utter it or use it as a form of address? For instance, if some one should meet you in hospitable fashion, should grasp your hand and say, “Well met, my friend from Athens, son of Smicrion, Hermogenes,” would he be saying or speaking or uttering or addressing these words not to you, but to Hermogenes—or to nobody?CratylusI think, Socrates, the man would be producing sounds without sense.SocratesEven that reply is wel
Aegina (Greece) (search for this): text Crat., section 433a
as is the case in the names of the letters of the alphabet, if you remember what Hermogenes and I were saying a while ago.CratylusYes, I remember.SocratesVery well, then. So long as this intrinsic quality is present, even though the name have not all the proper letters, the thing will still be named; well, when it has all the proper letters; badly, when it has only a few of them. Let us, then, grant this, my friend, or we shall get into trouble, like the belated night wanderers in the road at Aegina,This seems to refer to some story unknown to us. and in very truth we shall be found to have arrived too late;
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