Dialogue

 1 Lache|     elder Thucydides, two aged men who live together, are desirous
 2 Lache| happens with the sons of great men, has been neglected; and
 3 Lache|        school again, boys, old men and all.~Some points of
 4 Lache|     seance is of old and elder men, of whom Socrates is the
 5 Lache|    inestimable value for young men at their age.~LYSIMACHUS:
 6 Lache|       me, and with these young men, that I may continue your
 7 Lache|      many ways useful to young men. It is an advantage to them
 8 Lache|    while in all other arts the men of note have been always
 9 Lache|     fail ever so little, other men will be on the watch, and
10 Lache|     the question whether young men ought or ought not to learn
11 Lache|       to be in the first place men of merit and experienced
12 Lache|       to enquire how the young men may attain this quality
13 Lache|     will be fewer and inferior men against him than there are
14 Lache|       think.~SOCRATES: And yet men who thus run risks and endure
15 Lache|    qualities possessed by many men, many women, many children,
16 Lache|     many animals. And you, and men in general, call by the
17 Lache|      to deal both with gods or men.~NICIAS: I think, Socrates,