At a key point, the title character compares himself to the horse in a poem by Ibycus who is forced against his will to compete in a game.  This work begins when some people go to Melita to find a man who is concerned with his horse's bridle, but who grudgingly agrees to recount a story which he had heard from Pythodorus.  In that story, a young man goes to the Ceramicus, where some new texts are read to him.  Most of this work consists of a meth
At a key point, the title character compares himself to the horse in a poem by Ibycus who is forced against his will to compete in a game.  This work begins when some people go to Melita to find a man who is concerned with his horse's bridle, but who grudgingly agrees to recount a story which he had heard from Pythodorus.  In that story, a young man goes to the Ceramicus, where some new texts are read to him.  Most of this work consists of a methodical discussion of the eight different consequences which may follow from any hypothesis, and offers as an example a set of deductions about the metaphysical properties of "one being."  The title character stymies his interlocutor by asking him about undignified things like hair and mud, which may or may not each have a form of its own.  He also raises the "third man" problem, which continues to concern philosophers.  FTP, name this Platonic dialogue, whose title refers to a thinker who visited Athens with Zeno to expound his Eleatic views.
At a key point, the title character compares himself to the horse in a poem by Ibycus who is forced against his will to compete in a game.  
Parmenides