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Str. And furthermore our king is very clearly the herdsman of a herd devoid of horns.
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Y. Soc. Of course; that is evident.
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Str. Let us then try to break up this herd and give the king the part that belongs to him.
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Y. Soc. Very well.
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Str. Shall we make our division on the basis of having or not having cloven hoofs, or on that of mixing or not mixing the breed? You know what I mean.
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Y. Soc. No. What is it?
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Str. Why, I mean that horses and asses can breed from each other.
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Y. Soc. Oh yes.
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Str. But the rest of the herd of hornless tame animals cannot cross the breed.
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Y. Soc. That is true, of course.
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Str. Well then, does the statesman appear to have charge of a kind that mixes or of one that does not mix the breed?
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Y. Soc. Evidently of one that is unmixed.
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Str. So I suppose we must proceed as we have done heretofore and divide this into two parts.
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Y. Soc. Yes, we must.
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Str. And yet tame gregarious animals have all, with the exception of about two species, been already divided; for dogs are not properly to be counted among gregarious creatures.
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Y. Soc. No, they are not. But how shall we divide the two species?
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Str. As you and Theaetetus ought by rights to divide them, since you are interested in geometry.
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Y. Soc. How do you mean?