The Incredulity of Socrates

They fancied that Catisipose was making game of them, and they refused. He would ask them if they knew the foulest things, and they, like wild boars, came rushing on his blows. At last he began to throw off all restraint. No question was too bad for him. And did you always know this? Always he said, when you were children, and at your birth? They both said that they did. This we could not believe, and you see to most said, you are incredulous, Socrates. Yes, I said, and I might well be incredulous, if I did not know that you are wise men.