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Stranger
Str. Why, I mean that horses and asses can breed from each other.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Oh yes.
Stranger
Str. But the rest of the herd of hornless tame animals cannot cross the breed.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. That is true, of course.
Stranger
Str. Well then, does the statesman appear to have charge of a kind that mixes or of one that does not mix the breed?
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Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Evidently of one that is unmixed.
Stranger
Str. So I suppose we must proceed as we have done heretofore and divide this into two parts.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. Yes, we must.
Stranger
Str. And yet tame gregarious animals have all, with the exception of about two species, been already divided; for dogs are not properly to be counted among gregarious creatures.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. No, they are not. But how shall we divide the two species?
Stranger
Str. As you and Theaetetus ought by rights to divide them, since you are interested in geometry.
Younger Socrates
Y. Soc. How do you mean?
