Dialogue

1 Lache|    were always companions and friends, and to the hour of his
2 Lache|     me as one of your warmest friends. You ought to have visited
3 Lache|    hear with which of our two friends you agree.~SOCRATES: What,
4 Lache|      spoiling the children of friends, and thereby incurring the
5 Lache|     the words of Socrates, my friends; but you, Nicias and Laches,
6 Lache| SOCRATES: And are not our two friends, Laches, at this very moment
7 Lache|     what you can to help your friends, who are tossing on the
8 Lache|    vain words at a meeting of friends such as this?~SOCRATES:
9 Lache|    ourselves). I maintain, my friends, that every one of us should