Dialogue

 1 Intro|            as his thesis a poem of Simonides of Ceos, in which he professes
 2 Intro|        Prodicus, the countryman of Simonides, but apparently only with
 3 Intro|        Hard is it to be good:’ and Simonides, who was jealous of the
 4 Intro|       Socrates says of the poem of Simonides, is a most perfect piece
 5 Intro|          in defence of the poem of Simonides, after the manner of the
 6 Intro|            how the two passages of Simonides are to be reconciled. We
 7 Intro|        with the serious defence of Simonides. (6) the marked approval
 8 Intro|          is ‘really too bad,’ that Simonides uses the Lesbian (?) word, (
 9 Intro|          in this interpretation of Simonides Socrates is ‘fooling,’ how
10 Intro|          the ironical criticism of Simonides, and are conceived in a
11  Prot|       poets, as Homer, Hesiod, and Simonides, some, of hierophants and
12  Prot|           a passage of a poet. Now Simonides says to Scopas the son of
13  Prot|      called him. Prodicus, I said, Simonides is a countryman of yours,
14  Prot|     Protagoras will make an end of Simonides. Now is the time to rehabilitate
15  Prot|           the time to rehabilitate Simonides, by the application of your
16  Prot|      contradiction in the words of Simonides. And first of all I wish
17  Prot|          replied Prodicus.~Did not Simonides first set forth, as his
18  Prot|           Pittacus does not say as Simonides says, that hardly can a
19  Prot|        they are not the same, then Simonides is not inconsistent with
20  Prot|         date, and may be as old as Simonides or even older. Learned as
21  Prot|       chalepon) in the sense which Simonides intended; and I must correct
22  Prot|             evil. And I think that Simonides and his countrymen the Ceans,
23  Prot|     questions about the dialect of Simonides. What did he mean, Prodicus,
24  Prot|          and I know very well that Simonides in using the word ‘hard’
25  Prot|            this was the meaning of Simonides, of which our friend Prodicus
26  Prot|     maintain your thesis; for that Simonides could never have meant the
27  Prot|           Prodicus would impute to Simonides a character of recklessness
28  Prot|          to be the real meaning of Simonides in this poem, if you will
29  Prot|         opinion about this poem of Simonides. There is a very ancient
30  Prot|        Hard is it to be good.’ And Simonides, who was ambitious of the
31  Prot|           I am speaking the truth. Simonides must have been a lunatic,
32  Prot| observation, and quite unworthy of Simonides); but you must suppose him
33  Prot|        Pittacus to be speaking and Simonides answering him): ‘O my friends,’
34  Prot|        hard is it to be good,’ and Simonides answers, ‘In that, Pittacus,
35  Prot|           has a similar drift, for Simonides was not so ignorant as to
36  Prot|            against their will. And Simonides never says that he praises
37  Prot|           own flesh and blood. And Simonides, as is probable, considered
38  Prot|          take to be the meaning of Simonides in this poem.~Hippias said: