Plato, Cratylus, section 391e

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[391e] by the names that are naturally right. Do you not think so?

Hermogenes
Of course I know that if they call things, they call them rightly. But what are these instances to which you refer?

Socrates
Do you not know that he says about the river in Troy which had the single combat with Hephaestus,¹“whom the gods call Xanthus, but men call Scamander
”Hom. Il. 20.74?

Hermogenes
Oh yes.

1 Hom. Il. 21.342-380

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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