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392 Socrates. Well, do you not think this is a grand thing to know, that the name of that river is rightly Xanthus, rather than Scamander? Or, if you like, do you think it is a slight thing to learn about the bird which he says gods call chalcis, but men call cymindis,Hom. Il. 14.291 that it is much more correct for the same bird to be called chalcis than cymindis? Or to learn that the hill men call Batieia is called by the gods Myrina’s tomb,Hom. Il. 2.813 f and many other such statements by Homer and other poets? But perhaps these matters are too high for us to understand; it is, I think, more within human power to investigate the names Scamandrius and Astyanax, and understand what kind of correctness he ascribes to these, which he says are the names of Hector’s son. You recall, of course: the lines which contain the words to which I refer.

392 Hermogenes. Certainly.

392 Socrates. Which of the names of the boy do you imagine Homer thought was more correct, Astyanax or Scamandrius?

392 Hermogenes. I cannot say.

392 Socrates. Look at it in this way: suppose you were asked, Do the wise or the unwise give names more correctly?

392 Hermogenes. The wise, obviously, I should say.

392 Socrates. And do you think the women or the men of a city, regarded as a class in general, are the wiser?

392 Hermogenes. The men.

392 Socrates. And do you not know that Homer says the child of Hector was called Astyanax by the men of Troy;Hom. Il. 22.506 so he must have been called Scamandrius by the women, since the men called him Astyanax?

392 Hermogenes. Yes, probably.

392 Socrates. And Homer too thought the Trojan men were wiser than the women?

392 Hermogenes. I suppose he did.

392 Socrates. Then he thought Astyanax was more rightly the boy’s name than Scamandrius?

392 Hermogenes. So it appears.

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