Dialogue

 1 Intro|    compromise that Protagoras shall ask and he will answer, and
 2 Intro|           of asking he himself will ask and Protagoras shall answer.
 3  Prot|     Socrates? And yet I need hardly ask the question, for I know
 4  Prot|            suppose a person were to ask this further question: And
 5  Prot|            suppose a person were to ask us: In what are the painters
 6  Prot|           And if he were further to ask: What is the wisdom of the
 7  Prot|          not carefully consider and ask the opinion of your friends
 8  Prot|             suppose that he were to ask him, ‘In what shall I become
 9  Prot|           say this, he replied: You ask questions fairly, and I
10  Prot|           truer—then I will further ask you to imagine, as an illustration,
11  Prot|         teachers? You might as well ask, Who teaches Greek? For
12  Prot|        teachers found. Or you might ask, Who is to teach the sons
13  Prot|          when one has a question to ask of any of them, like books,
14  Prot|         they can neither answer nor ask; and if any one challenges
15  Prot|          Now I, Protagoras, want to ask of you a little question,
16  Prot|       suppose that some one were to ask us, saying, ‘O Protagoras,
17  Prot|            result may be that I who ask and you who answer may both
18  Prot|           such a bad memory, I will ask you to cut your answers
19  Prot|         that I cannot. And what you ask is as great an impossibility
20  Prot|             reply that I would fain ask the same of my own legs;
21  Prot|    Protagoras discoursing, you must ask him to shorten his answers,
22  Prot|           argument as well, let him ask and answer—not, when a question
23  Prot|         disposed to answer, let him ask and I will answer; and I
24  Prot|            questions as he likes to ask, let him in like manner
25  Prot|      obliged to agree that he would ask questions; and when he had
26  Prot|           do not understand. Let us ask Prodicus, for he ought to
27  Prot|            Protagoras is willing to ask, Socrates should answer;
28  Prot|           then that Socrates should ask.~I said: I wish Protagoras
29  Prot|           wish Protagoras either to ask or answer as he is inclined;
30  Prot| conversation. If you have a mind to ask, I am ready to answer; or
31  Prot|        argue, and said that I might ask and he would answer.~So
32  Prot|  examination of these subjects, and ask questions and consult with
33  Prot|          opinion; or if not, I will ask you to define your meaning,
34  Prot|             and I were to go on and ask them again: ‘In what way
35  Prot|             evil. But some one will ask, Why? Because he is overcome,
36  Prot|            enquirer will proceed to ask. And we shall not be able
37  Prot|           by good. Is that, he will ask, because the good was worthy
38  Prot|            And now I should like to ask you, Hippias, and you, Prodicus,
39  Prot|        prefers to call them, I will ask you, most excellent Prodicus,
40  Prot|        Prodicus, I said; but let me ask whether, if our former assertions
41  Prot|             he said.~I only want to ask one more question, I said.