Dialogue

 1 Lache|          good, Laches; and yet I fear that I did not express myself
 2 Lache|         as having a knowledge of fear or flight, and calls him ‘
 3 Lache|          calls him ‘an author of fear or flight.’~LACHES: Yes,
 4 Lache|       courageous against pain or fear, but mighty to contend against
 5 Lache| knowledge of that which inspires fear or confidence in war, or
 6 Lache|         which inspires them with fear or confidence in their own
 7 Lache|        skilled in the grounds of fear and hope? And him I call
 8 Lache|      know the grounds of hope or fear?~LACHES: Indeed I do: who
 9 Lache|          the grounds of hope and fear?~NICIAS: I do.~SOCRATES:
10 Lache|      knowledge of the grounds of fear and hope, cannot allow that
11 Lache|       other things which have no fear of dangers, because they
12 Lache|       children courageous, which fear no dangers because they
13 Lache|        which do or do not create fear, and fear is not of the
14 Lache|          do not create fear, and fear is not of the present, nor