ABSTRACT
THE EUTHYDEMUS SETS THE SCENE The two brothers Euthydemus and Dionysodorus are famed for their argumentative powers. They can run dialectical rings around more or less any opposition. And if you accuse them of putting forward falsehoods, they will reply by arguing that no one can ever say anything that is false, not even those notorious economisers of the truth, the orators in the Assembly. This was what Ctesippus found, according to Plato's Euthydemus 283 e 7 - 284 c 6:
'WeH then, Ctesippus,' said Euthydemus, 'do you think it possible to tell a lie?'
