Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|       that Socrates is ready to answer what they said a year ago,
 2 Euthyd|      makes us good, there is no answer to the question, ‘good in
 3 Euthyd|    young man is only willing to answer questions.~He is quite accustomed
 4 Euthyd|     Take courage, Cleinias, and answer like a man whichever you
 5 Euthyd|        to me, Cleinias gave his answer: and therefore I had no
 6 Euthyd|        unlearned; and your last answer to Euthydemus was wrong.~
 7 Euthyd|          you were wrong in your answer.~The word was hardly out
 8 Euthyd|    there can be no doubt of the answer.~He assented.~And what things
 9 Euthyd|      said, they are not easy to answer; for they are the words
10 Euthyd|      mean what you say. And now answer.~What, before you, Dionysodorus?
11 Euthyd|      you, Dionysodorus? I said.~Answer, said he.~And is that fair?~
12 Euthyd| logician, and who knows when to answer and when not to answer—and
13 Euthyd|       to answer and when not to answer—and now you will not open
14 Euthyd|       you admit that I am wise, answer as I tell you.~I suppose
15 Euthyd|       we to acquire? May we not answer with absolute truth—A knowledge
16 Euthyd|         us? To be sure, was the answer. And would not you, Crito,
17 Euthyd|        may not be ready with an answer?~CRITO: Indeed I am not,
18 Euthyd|      and they would only say in answer to each of his questions,
19 Euthyd|       wise men.~But if you will answer, he said, I will make you
20 Euthyd|        be a greater gain to me.~Answer then, he said.~Ask, I said,
21 Euthyd|         Ask, I said, and I will answer.~Do you know something,
22 Euthyd|      are asking, you tell me to answer nevertheless, and not to
23 Euthyd|          I replied.~Well, then, answer according to your notion
24 Euthyd|       will that please you—if I answer what is not to the point?~
25 Euthyd|   imagine.~I certainly will not answer unless I understand you,
26 Euthyd|       you, I said.~You will not answer, he said, according to your
27 Euthyd| questions once more, and I will answer.~Answer then, he said, again,
28 Euthyd|        more, and I will answer.~Answer then, he said, again, whether
29 Euthyd|      with my soul.~The man will answer more than the question;
30 Euthyd|      forgive me. And now I will answer simply that I always know
31 Euthyd|       certainly not us. And now answer: Do you always know with
32 Euthyd|   Dionysodorus, and refusing to answer.~No wonder, I said, for
33 Euthyd|         suppose that I had best answer you, Dionysodorus, I said,
34 Euthyd|      wisdom of Euthydemus.~Then answer me, he said.~Well then,
35 Euthyd|     yours, he said.~If you will answer my questions, said Dionysodorus,
36 Euthyd|       you will discover, if you answer; since you admit medicine
37 Euthyd|        returned to the previous answer of Ctesippus and said:—~
38 Euthyd|        be ‘non-plussed’ at that answer.~Here Ctesippus, as his
39 Euthyd|        must have picked up this answer from them; for there has
40 Euthyd|     great quandary at having to answer this question, and I thought