Dialogue

 1 Lache|          accompanied them to see a man named Stesilaus fighting
 2 Lache|       useless and ridiculous. This man Stesilaus has been seen
 3 Lache|            how little he knows the man, who will certainly not
 4 Lache|       things terrible.’ ‘But every man knows the things to be dreaded
 5 Lache|      terrible; only the courageous man can tell that.’ Laches draws
 6 Lache|      inference that the courageous man is either a soothsayer or
 7 Lache|           on the exhibition of the man fighting in heavy armour.
 8 Lache|         the other is the practical man, who relies on his own experience,
 9 Lache|        could not have been a young man at any time after the battle
10 Lache|         seen the exhibition of the man fighting in armour, Nicias
11 Lache|         accomplishment for a young man to learn; and he praised
12 Lache|          learn; and he praised the man whose exhibition you have
13 Lache|           be desirable for a young man to learn. Please to say
14 Lache|         who is a most accomplished man in every way, as well as
15 Lache|           who was a most excellent man; and I further rejoice at
16 Lache|           sort of skill inclines a man to the love of other noble
17 Lache|           noble lessons; for every man who has learned how to fight
18 Lache|       honourable and valuable to a man; and this lesson may be
19 Lache|         this science will make any man a great deal more valiant
20 Lache|          of the singularity of the man. To make a long story short,
21 Lache|           pretenders; and unless a man be pre-eminent in valour,
22 Lache|         they are able to educate a man; for unless they had been
23 Lache| advantageous or hurtful to a young man. I repose confidence in
24 Lache|       discourse; for when I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or
25 Lache|           of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme,
26 Lache|         measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note
27 Lache|       drinking in his words. But a man whose actions do not agree
28 Lache|            to be interrogated by a man such as he is, and shall
29 Lache|            valour such as only the man of merit can give. Therefore,
30 Lache|   difficulty in answering; he is a man of courage who does not
31 Lache|          explain; you would call a man courageous who remains at
32 Lache|           would you say of another man, who fights flying, instead
33 Lache|           great? For example, if a man shows the quality of endurance
34 Lache|    SOCRATES: Or, for example, if a man is a physician, and his
35 Lache|      preparation, that he, or some man in the opposing army who
36 Lache|          Socrates, what else can a man say?~SOCRATES: Nothing,
37 Lache|          heard you say that ‘Every man is good in that in which
38 Lache|         And therefore if the brave man is good, he is also wise.~
39 Lache|      disease: he can tell the sick man no more than this. Do you
40 Lache|          is the more terrible to a man? Had not many a man better
41 Lache|           to a man? Had not many a man better never get up from
42 Lache|          represents the courageous man as neither a soothsayer,
43 Lache|            doing; but why should a man deck himself out with vain
44 Lache|            SOCRATES: And not every man has this knowledge; the
45 Lache|         then, my dear friend, if a man knew all good and evil,
46 Lache|     ignorant of the things which a man who is good for anything
47 Lache|            is not good for a needy man.’~Let us then, regardless