Dialogue

 1 Intro|             to Protagoras, asks the question, ‘What he will make of Hippocrates.’
 2 Intro|          Socrates, and then the old question is repeated, ‘Whether the
 3 Intro|           the determination of this question the identity of virtue and
 4 Intro| disadvantage when subjected to ‘the question’ by Protagoras. He succeeds
 5 Intro|             to answer certainly the question of Protagoras, how the two
 6 Intro|          from the poets. The second question, whether the virtues are
 7 Intro|             Lysis, all touch on the question of the relation of knowledge
 8 Intro|            there, although the same question is discussed, ‘whether virtue
 9 Intro|      Hippocrates, the answer to the question is supplied out of the doctrine
10  Prot|           yet I need hardly ask the question, for I know that you have
11  Prot|            were to ask this further question: And how about yourself?
12  Prot|             in the answer a further question is involved: Of what does
13  Prot|             But when the soul is in question, which you hold to be of
14  Prot|              and I like to answer a question which is fairly put. If
15  Prot|      summoned as advisers; when the question is one of ship-building,
16  Prot|           of the arts. But when the question is an affair of state, then
17  Prot|            or shall I argue out the question?~To this several of the
18  Prot|        mankind in general, when the question relates to carpentering
19  Prot|              but when honesty is in question, or some other political
20  Prot|          all? In the answer to this question is contained the only solution
21  Prot|             but then when one has a question to ask of any of them, like
22  Prot|              but when he is asked a question he can answer briefly; and
23  Prot|         want to ask of you a little question, which if you will only
24  Prot|         angry at his putting such a question, and should say, ‘Peace,
25  Prot|            me; for I only asked the question; Protagoras gave the answer.’
26  Prot|          ask and answer—not, when a question is asked, slipping away
27  Prot|           of his hearers forget the question at issue (not that Socrates
28  Prot|            at answering the precise question asked of him, you and I
29  Prot|             propose to transfer the question which you and I have been
30  Prot|        object, and come back to the question about which I was asking
31  Prot|            If I am not mistaken the question was this: Are wisdom and
32  Prot|      pleasant they are good; and my question would imply that pleasure
33  Prot|      suppose that they repeat their question, What account do you give
34  Prot|          And then I should take the question from the opposite point
35  Prot|           so good as to answer me a question: Do not the same magnitudes
36  Prot|    knowledge of measuring, when the question is one of excess and defect,
37  Prot|       knowledge of number, when the question is of odd and even? The
38  Prot|         demonstrative answer to the question which you asked of me and
39  Prot|             time when you asked the question, if you remember, both of
40  Prot|           only want to ask one more question, I said. I want to know