division of labour which exists in every temperate or well-ordered state. How is this riddle to be explained? *Critias, who takes the place of Charmides, distinguishes in his answer between ‘making’ and ‘doing,’ and with the help of a misapplied quotation from Hesiod assigns to the words ‘doing’ and ‘work’ an exclusively good sense: Temperance is doing one’s own business;—(4) is doing good. *Still an element of knowledge is wanting which Critias is readily induced to admit at the suggestion of Socrates;