Opening Sophist — Plato in Plato Scroll…
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Plato · David Horan
Well, Socrates, as agreed yesterday, we have come in person, and appropriately we are bringing this stranger, one of the people from Elea, an associate of those who follow Parmenides and Zeno. He is a man with a great love of wisdom. In that case, Theodorus, are you unwittingly bringing in some god rather than a stranger, as Homer's phrase would have it, when he says that the gods in general, and the god of strangers in particular, become the companions of people who partake of true righteousness, to behold the excesses and the good order of humanity? So, perhaps this companion of yours may indeed be one of those higher powers, who is going to watch over and refute our sorry predicament in these arguments, as he is a god of refutation. That is not the manner of this stranger, Socrates. No, he is more moderate than those who take controversies seriously. Indeed, the man does not seem to …
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