which you have in your own power, and which you are able to use as you would desire, for example, an ox or a sheep—would you not think that which you could sell and give and sacrifice to any god whom you pleased, to be your own, and that which you could not give or sell or sacrifice you would think not to be in your own power?
yes, i said (for i was certain that something good would come out of the questions, which i was impatient to hear); yes, such things, and such things only are mine.
yes, he said, and you would mean by animals living beings?
you agree then, 