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Socrates

SOC. Have you then not heard, you absurd boy, that I am the son of a noble and burly midwife, Phaenarete?

Theaetetus

THEAET. Yes, I have heard that.

Socrates

SOC. And have you also heard that I practise the same art?

Theaetetus

THEAET. No, never.

Socrates

SOC. But I assure you it is true; only do not tell on me to the others; for it is not known that I possess this art. But other people, since they do not know it, do not say this of me, but say that I am a most eccentric person and drive men to distraction. Have you heard that also? 5

Theaetetus

THEAET. Yes, I have.

Socrates

SOC. Shall I tell you the reason then?

Theaetetus

THEAET. Oh yes, do.

Socrates

SOC. Just take into consideration the whole business of the midwives, and you will understand more easily what I mean. For you know, I suppose, that no one of them attends other women while she is still capable of conceiving and bearing but only those do so who have become too old to bear.

Theaetetus

THEAET. Yes, certainly. 10

Socrates

SOC. They say the cause of this is Artemis, because she, a childless goddess, has had childbirth allotted to her as her special province. Now it would seem she did not allow barren women to be midwives, because human nature is too weak to acquire an art which deals with matters of which it has no experience, but she gave the office to those who on account of age were not bearing children, honoring them for their likeness to herself.

Theaetetus

THEAET. Very likely.

Socrates

SOC. Is it not, then, also likely and even necessary, that midwives should know better than anyone else who are pregnant and who are not?

Theaetetus

THEAET. Certainly.

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