Dialogue

 1 Intro|   desires to have a more precise answer. Protagoras replies, ‘That
 2 Intro|          virtue. Will Protagoras answer these objections?~Protagoras
 3 Intro|       doubt of Socrates the best answer is the fact, that the education
 4 Intro| Protagoras shall ask and he will answer, and that when Protagoras
 5 Intro|         ask and Protagoras shall answer. To this the latter yields
 6 Intro|        with his pupils, as if in answer to the favourite accusation
 7 Intro|          is impossible for us to answer certainly the question of
 8 Intro|         that of Hippocrates, the answer to the question is supplied
 9  Prot|         him money,—how should we answer? I know that Pheidias is
10  Prot|         painters wise? We should answer: In what relates to the
11  Prot|          presides?—how should we answer him?~How should we answer
12  Prot|        answer him?~How should we answer him, Socrates? What other
13  Prot|        him, Socrates? What other answer could there be but that
14  Prot|       but not enough; for in the answer a further question is involved:
15  Prot|          no doubt: but please to answer in a different way—I will
16  Prot|         I grow?’—Zeuxippus would answer, ‘In painting.’ And suppose
17  Prot|         to make the same sort of answer to this young man and to
18  Prot|  questions fairly, and I like to answer a question which is fairly
19  Prot|         be a city at all? In the answer to this question is contained
20  Prot|          books, they can neither answer nor ask; and if any one
21  Prot|          asked a question he can answer briefly; and when he asks
22  Prot|        he will wait and hear the answer; and this is a very rare
23  Prot|           which if you will only answer, I shall be quite satisfied.
24  Prot|        or unjust?’—and I were to answer, just: would you vote with
25  Prot|         said.~Thereupon I should answer to him who asked me, that
26  Prot|          as holiness?’—we should answer, ‘Yes,’ if I am not mistaken?~
27  Prot|     would you say? Would you not answer in the same way?~Certainly,
28  Prot|    question; Protagoras gave the answer.’ And suppose that he turned
29  Prot|         position?’—how would you answer him?~I could not help acknowledging
30  Prot|        the unholy’: how shall we answer him? I should certainly
31  Prot|          him? I should certainly answer him on my own behalf that
32  Prot|        be permitted to give this answer on your behalf, and whether
33  Prot|         please, if you will only answer me and say whether you are
34  Prot|       that I who ask and you who answer may both be put on our trial.~
35  Prot|          length, he consented to answer.~Now then, I said, begin
36  Prot|       begin at the beginning and answer me. You think that some
37  Prot|           When he had given this answer, the company cheered him.
38  Prot|     enough?~Yes, I said.~Shall I answer what appears to me to be
39  Prot|         as well, let him ask and answer—not, when a question is
40  Prot|          better then,’—to that I answer that you cannot have any
41  Prot|    Protagoras is not disposed to answer, let him ask and I will
42  Prot|           let him ask and I will answer; and I will endeavour to
43  Prot|          I maintain, he ought to answer: and when I have answered
44  Prot|           let him in like manner answer me; and if he seems to be
45  Prot|    number of them, that he would answer in his turn those which
46  Prot|       for he ought to be able to answer questions about the dialect
47  Prot|          saying? And have you an answer for him?~You are entirely
48  Prot|          to ask, Socrates should answer; or that if he would rather
49  Prot|          that if he would rather answer, then that Socrates should
50  Prot|      Protagoras either to ask or answer as he is inclined; but I
51  Prot|       mind to ask, I am ready to answer; or if you would rather,
52  Prot|         you would rather, do you answer, and give me the opportunity
53  Prot|      whether he will or will not answer? for I certainly think that
54  Prot|         I might ask and he would answer.~So I said: Do not imagine,
55  Prot|     order to make trial of me.~I answer, Socrates, he said, that
56  Prot|         of them’: and what I did answer you have not proved to be
57  Prot|    regard not only to my present answer, but also to the whole of
58  Prot|   overcome by pleasure? I should answer thus: Listen, and Protagoras
59  Prot|          nature?’—Would they not answer that they are not evil on
60  Prot|       the world in general would answer as you do.~And in causing
61  Prot|        is overcome, is the first answer. And by what is he overcome?
62  Prot|         for that of good. In our answer, then, we shall only say
63  Prot|     conquering the evil’? And in answer to that we shall clearly
64  Prot|         so far, be so good as to answer me a question: Do not the
65  Prot|        furnishes a demonstrative answer to the question which you
66  Prot|        us suppose this to be our answer to the world in general:
67  Prot|      most excellent Prodicus, to answer in my sense of the words.~
68  Prot|   Protagoras, that this was your answer.)~He assented.~Well then,
69  Prot|        great ambition to make me answer, Socrates, and therefore