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Stranger
Str. Let us, then, not make our division as we did before, with a view to all, nor in a hurry, with the idea that we may thus reach political science quickly, for that has already brought upon us the proverbial penalty.
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Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. What penalty?
Stranger
Str. The penalty of having made less speed, because we made too much haste and did not make our division right.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. And it was a good thing for us, Stranger
Stranger
Str. I do not deny it. So let us begin again and try to divide the art of tending animals in common; for perhaps the information you desire so much will come to you in the ordinary course of our conversation better than by other means. Tell me—
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. What?
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Stranger
Str. Whether, as I suppose, you have often heard people speak of this,— for I know you never actually saw the preserves of fish in the Nile and in the ponds of the Persian king. But perhaps you have noticed the like in fountain-pools.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Yes, I have often seen the fish in fountain-pools and have heard many tales of those foreign preserves.
Stranger
Str. And surely, even if you have not wandered over the plains of Thessaly, you have heard of goose-farms and crane-farms there and you believe that they exist.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Yes, of course.
Stranger
Str. The reason why I asked you all these questions is that the rearing of flocks is in part aquatic and in part an affair of the dry land.
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Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Yes, that is true.
