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Str. Into the tending of flying and walking animals.
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Y. Soc. Very true.
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Str. And statesmanship is to be sought in connection with walking animals, is it not? Any fool, so to speak, would believe that, don’t you think?
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Y. Soc. Of course.
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Str. And the art of tending animals that walk must, like an even number, be divided in half.
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Y. Soc. Evidently.
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Str. And now I think I see two paths leading in that direction in which our argument has started: the quicker way, by separating a relatively small part and a larger, and the other way, which is more in accord with what we said a while ago about the need of making the division as nearly in the middle as we can, but is longer. So we can proceed by whichever of the two we wish.
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Y. Soc. Can we not go by both?
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Str. Not by both at once, silly boy; but obviously we can take them in turn.
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Y. Soc. Then I choose both in turn.
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Str. That is easy enough, since we have but a short distance to go. At the beginning, certainly, or middle of our journey it would have been hard to comply with your demand. But now, since this is your wish, let us go first by the longer way, for we are fresher now and shall get along on it more easily. So attend to the division.
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Y. Soc. Go on.
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Str. The tame walking animals which live in herds are divided by nature into two classes.
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Y. Soc. How by nature?
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Str. Because one class is naturally without horns, and the other has horns.
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Y. Soc. That is obvious.
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Str. Now divide the art of tending herds of walking animals into two parts, assigning one to each class of animals; and define the parts, for if you try to give them names, the matter will become needlessly complicated.
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Y. Soc. How shall I speak of them then?
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Str. In this way: say that the science which tends herds of walking animals is divided into two parts, one of which is assigned to the horned portion of the herd, the other to the hornless portion.
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Y. Soc. Assume that I have said that; for you have made it perfectly clear.
