Dialogue

1 Phileb|       philosophers were fond of asking, in the language of their
2 Phileb|  SOCRATES: Philebus is right in asking that question of us, Protarchus.~
3 Phileb| Protarchus and I have been long asking.~SOCRATES: Assuredly you
4 Phileb|      say, you have been so long asking?~PHILEBUS: How so?~SOCRATES:
5 Phileb|      understood him rightly, is asking whether there are not kinds
6 Phileb|        not perplex us, and keep asking questions of us to which
7 Phileb|      begin then, Protarchus, by asking a question.~PROTARCHUS:
8 Phileb|          is this question worth asking?~PROTARCHUS: What question?~
9 Phileb|  question which the argument is asking.~SOCRATES: And how, Protarchus,