Dialogue

 1 Lache|  than he is: they have had teachers, and perhaps have made discoveries;
 2 Lache|   We might ask who are our teachers? But a better and more thorough
 3 Lache|   if, as Nicias and as the teachers of the art affirm, this
 4 Lache|  the art, and had the best teachers?~MELESIAS: I think that
 5 Lache|   which of us has had good teachers?~LACHES: Well but, Socrates;
 6 Lache|   persons, who have had no teachers, are more skilful than those
 7 Lache|   should tell them who our teachers were, if we say that we
 8 Lache|    to have been really our teachers. Or if any of us says that
 9 Lache| But if he can show neither teachers nor works, then he should
10 Lache|   who were your respective teachers, and who were their brothers