Dialogue

 1 Lache|   would rather not decide the question by a plurality of votes:
 2 Lache| thorough way of examining the question will be to ask, ‘What is
 3 Lache|   this, or any other military question, may be settled by asking, ‘
 4 Lache|   this, as in the preliminary question, the truth is parted between
 5 Lache|       there not arise a prior question about the nature of the
 6 Lache|     Why, Socrates, is not the question whether young men ought
 7 Lache|     but there is also a prior question, which I may illustrate
 8 Lache| detain Laches and Nicias, and question them. I would have you say
 9 Lache|       in asking ourselves the question which was first proposed
10 Lache|     you have answered not the question which I intended to ask,
11 Lache|     to blame in having put my question badly, and that this was
12 Lache|       if we are to answer the question. And yet I cannot say that
13 Lache| Socrates?~SOCRATES: That is a question which you must ask of himself.~
14 Lache|      I think that you put the question to him very well, Socrates;
15 Lache|     to show. Let me ask you a question: Do not physicians know
16 Lache|      why I should not; and my question will do for both of us.~
17 Lache|      the consideration of the question.~LACHES: I will if you think
18 Lache|      part of courage; but our question extended to the whole nature