The Zeno-Socrates Dialogs Chapter 12

Chapter 12

By Exia, a servant in Zeno's house and future grandmother to Eudoxus of Cnidus.

They sat together at a marble table below the raised platform where Judge Draco sat. . Zeno would have given much to sit apart from Socrates.

Solon made an opening statement, directed more than the audience than to Draco, which did nothing to improve the mood on the raised dais.  He gave the pedigree of his clients at length which sounded impressive to Zeno even though he knew them. Zeno felt that Solon was describing someone else of higher station when his name was mentioned.

Draco was not to be swayed. “I happen to know who your clients are Solon. This is not about pedigree, it is about sedition.” He said this last word so that it dripped with disdain and the audience, quiet till now whispered in shock.  ‘They must have known the charges before now,’ Zeno thought irritably.

“Silence. I do not know why you are here, but I will not hesitate to clear you with arms if necessary from this court.”

“Will you argue that we had no intention to be published, that our work was stolen?” Zeno asked Solon.

Solon smiled, “That will hardly help your cause. You would then look like you were hiding what you are doing. There is a better way.”

“Will it work.”

“Well, if it does, it will result in a less Draco type system; but if it fails, well it will go badly on all of us.” Zeno wondered how it would go badly on Solon. Perhaps he would lose some clients who he'd otherwise acquire or he would suffer some small embarrassment or self abasement as his clients were torn asunder in various manner.

“Let me give you then my case summary,” Solon said...

“Silence. I will hear directly from your clients and will brook no discussion on this issue. Zeno and Parmenides of Elea; Socrates of Athens, come before the court.”

“Well, that was unexpected,” Solon said.

As they shuffled forward to stand before the court, Socrates asked Zeno, “What is the real story of how Parmenides came up with his theories? Did a goddess really visit him and take him to a place where mortal men did not live.”

“Yes, she did that according to Parmenides. But she did not tell him the secrets of Non linear time, he already knew those.”

“So what did she tell him?”

“Not to write them, to keep his mouth shut, ” Zeno reprimanded.

Zeno's paradoxes as the predecessor of all hologram theory: The Zeno-Socrates dialogs:

The Zeno-Socrates dialogs

Chapter 12-END

By Exia, a servant in Zeno's house and future grandmother to Eudoxus of Cnidus.