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417 Hermogenes. What shall be our explanations of the opposites of these?

417 Socrates. Those of them that are mere negatives, need, I think, no discussion.

417 Hermogenes. Which are those?

417 Socrates. Disadvantageous, useless, unprofitable, and ungainful.

417 Hermogenes. True.

417 Socrates. But βλαβερόν (harmful) and ζημιῶδες (hurtful) do need it.

417 Hermogenes. Yes.

417 Socrates. And βλαβερόν means that which harms (βλάπτον) the flow (ῥοῦν); but βλάπτον means wishing to fasten (ἅπτειν), and ἅπτειν is the same thing as δεῖν (bind), which the name-giver constantly finds fault with. Now τὸ βουλόμενον ἅπτειν ῥοῦν (that which wishes to fasten the flow) would most correctly be called βουλαπτεροῦν, but is called βλαβερόν merely, as I think, to make it prettier.

417 Hermogenes. Elaborate names these are, Socrates, that result from your method. Just now, when you pronounced βουλαπτεροῦν, you looked as if you had made up your mouth to whistle the flute-prelude of the hymn to Athena.

418 Socrates. Not I, Hermogenes, am responsible, but those who gave the name.

418 Hermogenes. True. Well, what is the origin of ζημιῶδες?

418 Socrates. What can the origin of ζημιῶδες be? See, Hermogenes, how true my words are when I say that by adding and taking away letters people alter the sense of words so that even by very slight changes they sometimes make them mean the opposite of what they meant before; as, for instance, in the case of the word δέον (obligation, right), for that just occurred to me and I was reminded of it by what I was going to say to you, that this fine modern language of ours has turned δέον and also ζημιῶδες round, so that each has the opposite of its original meaning, whereas the ancient language shows clearly the real sense of both words.

418 Hermogenes. What do you mean?

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