Dionysadros and Euthitimos: A Wise Man Who Knows When to Answer and When Not to Answer

Dionysadros: I can only suppose that you are a very wise man who comes to us in the character of a great logician, and now you won't open your mouth at all because you know that you ought not. You pray he said instead of answering, but if my good sir you admit that I am wise, answer as I tell you. Are the things which have sense alive or lifeless? They are alive. And do you know of any word which is alive? I cannot say that I do. Then why did you ask me what sense my words had? Why, because I was stupid and made a mistake, and yet perhaps I was right after all in saying