Dialogue

1 Lache|     this showing, as Nicias says, how little he knows the
2 Lache|  with public affairs. As he says, such persons are too apt
3 Lache|     being ridiculous, if he says that he has this sort of
4 Lache|   teachers. Or if any of us says that he has no teacher,
5 Lache| friend, and, as the proverb says, ‘break the large vessel
6 Lache|    his after-life; as Solon says, he will wish and desire
7 Lache|   as pursuing; and as Homer says in praise of the horses
8 Lache|  would know, as the proverb says, and therefore he could
9 Lache|     authority of Homer, who says, that~‘Modesty is not good