THEAETETUS

[OR ON KNOWLEDGE, TENTATIVE]

CHARACTERS

EUCLEIDES, TERPSION, SOCRATES, THEODORUS, THEAETETUS

EU. Just in from the country, Terpsion, or did you come some time ago?
TERP. Quite a while ago; and I was looking for you in the market-place and wondering that I could not find you.
EU. Well, you see, I was not in the city.
TERP. Where then?
EU. As I was going down to the harbour I met Theaetetus being carried to Athens from the camp at Corinth.
TERP. Alive or dead?
EU. Just barely alive; for he is suffering severely from wounds, and, worse than that, he has been taken with the sickness that has broken out in the army.
TERP. You mean the dysentery?
EU. Yes.
TERP. What a man he is who you say is in danger!
EU. A noble man, Terpsion, and indeed just now I