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İngilizce Yunanca

149 SOC. They say the cause of this is Artemis, because she, a childless goddess, has had childbirth allotted to her as her special province. Now it would seem she did not allow barren women to be midwives, because human nature is too weak to acquire an art which deals with matters of which it has no experience, but she gave the office to those who on account of age were not bearing children, honoring them for their likeness to herself.

149 THEAET. Very likely.

149 SOC. Is it not, then, also likely and even necessary, that midwives should know better than anyone else who are pregnant and who are not?

149 THEAET. Certainly.

149 SOC. And furthermore, the midwives, by means of drugs and incantations, are able to arouse the pangs of labor and, if they wish, to make them milder, and to cause those to bear who have difficulty in bearing; and they cause miscarriages if they think them desirable.

149 THEAET. That is true.

149 SOC. Well, have you noticed this also about them, that they are the most skillful of matchmakers, since they are very wise in knowing what union of man and woman will produce the best possible children?

149 THEAET. I do not know that at all.

149 SOC. But be assured that they are prouder of this than of their skill in cutting the umbilical cord. Just consider. Do you think the knowledge of what soil is best for each plant or seed belongs to the same art as the tending and harvesting of the fruits of the earth, or to another?

149 THEAET. To the same art.

149 SOC. And in the case of a woman, do you think, my friend, that there is one art for the sowing and another for the harvesting?

149 THEAET. It is not likely.

150 SOC. No; but because there is a wrongful and unscientific way of bringing men and women together, which is called pandering, the midwives, since they are women of dignity and worth, avoid matchmaking, through fear of falling under the charge of pandering. And yet the true midwife is the only proper match-maker.

150 THEAET. It seems so.

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