Dialogue

 1 Lache|         armour. The two fathers ask the two generals what they
 2 Lache|     Socrates proceeds: We might ask who are our teachers? But
 3 Lache|         the question will be to ask, ‘What is Virtue?’—or rather,
 4 Lache|       that we were intending to ask your advice. Some laugh
 5 Lache|         I have never thought to ask them whether the son of
 6 Lache|        but, as I said at first, ask Socrates, and do not let
 7 Lache|       LYSIMACHUS: I am going to ask this favour of you, Socrates;
 8 Lache|        we not then first of all ask, whether there is any one
 9 Lache|         are consulting, when we ask which of us is or is not
10 Lache|  partnership; and do you and he ask and answer one another’s
11 Lache|      manner; but you had better ask our friend Laches what his
12 Lache|   questions which I am going to ask, or the answers to them;
13 Lache|    question which I intended to ask, but another.~LACHES: What
14 Lache| answering badly. For I meant to ask you not only about the courage
15 Lache|     with courage, and once more ask, What is that common quality,
16 Lache|         I mean this: As I might ask what is that quality which
17 Lache|         question which you must ask of himself.~LACHES: Yes.~
18 Lache|       endeavour to show. Let me ask you a question: Do not physicians
19 Lache|         sake of talking. Let us ask him just to explain what
20 Lache|          Socrates, if you like, ask him: I think that I have
21 Lache|      said at first, they should ask Socrates and not let him