Opening Theaetetus — Plato in Plato Scroll…
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Plato · David Horan
Ah, Terpsion, have you arrived from the country just now, or was it some time ago? Quite some time ago. Indeed, I was looking for you around the marketplace and was surprised that I could not find you. Actually, I wasn’t in the city. Where were you then? As I was going down to the harbour, I came across Theaetetus being carried back to Athens from the army camp at Corinth. Was he alive or dead? Alive, but just barely so. He is in a bad way on account of his wounds, but worse still, he has caught the disease that broke out in the army. Oh, the dysentery? Yes. What a man he is! And you say he is in peril of his life? A noble and good man, Terpsion. In fact, I also heard some people just now, full of praise for his role in the battle. That is nothing particularly unusual. Indeed, it would have been much more surprising if he hadn’t played such a role. More to the point, why did the man not …
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