Dialogue

 1  Meno|   Yes.~SOCRATES: And yet, O son of Alexidemus, I cannot
 2  Meno|  the first place, he is the son of a wealthy and wise father,
 3  Meno|    annoying; moreover, this son of his has received a good
 4  Meno|     desired to make his own son a good man and a gentleman;
 5  Meno| never hear that he made his son Cleophantus a famous horseman;
 6  Meno|   no one could say that his son showed any want of capacity?~
 7  Meno|   hearing that Cleophantus, son of Themistocles, was a wise
 8  Meno|  must remember, was his own son, to be no better than his
 9  Meno|     another,—Aristides, the son of Lysimachus: would you
10  Meno|    And did not he train his son Lysimachus better than any
11  Meno|  again:—~‘Never would a bad son have sprung from a good