Dialogue

 1  Prot|        Protagoras is come.~Yes, I replied; he came two days ago: have
 2  Prot|        robbed you of anything?~He replied, laughing: Yes, indeed he
 3  Prot|      himself.~Would to heaven, he replied, that this were the case!
 4  Prot|       Hipponicus: let us start.~I replied: Not yet, my good friend;
 5  Prot|        answered?~I should say, he replied, that I gave money to him
 6  Prot|           a Sophist, Socrates, he replied.~Then we are going to pay
 7  Prot|          think that I do know, he replied.~Then tell me, what do you
 8  Prot|         who knows wise things, he replied, as his name implies.~And
 9  Prot|        makes men eloquent?~Yes, I replied, that is very likely true,
10  Prot|          he heard me say this, he replied: No other inference, Socrates,
11  Prot|         were just now speaking.~I replied: I will begin again at the
12  Prot|  Protagoras heard me say this, he replied: You ask questions fairly,
13  Prot|           would agree with me.~He replied, I cannot simply agree,
14  Prot|    holiness is just.~Pardon me, I replied; I do not want this ‘if
15  Prot|          with them or with you? I replied.~I would rather, he said,
16  Prot|        Certainly not the last, he replied; for I know of many things—
17  Prot|  compendious method.~Socrates, he replied, many a battle of words
18  Prot|   departure. Son of Hipponicus, I replied, I have always admired,
19  Prot|           No, not in that case, I replied.~And is there not a contradiction?
20  Prot|          Not the same, certainly, replied Prodicus.~Did not Simonides
21  Prot|         so? I asked.~The poet, he replied, could never have made such
22  Prot|          this proposal Protagoras replied: As you please;—and Hippias,
23  Prot|        any other of them? And you replied that the five names were
24  Prot|      courageous?~In that case, he replied, courage would be a base
25  Prot|        courage.~Nay, Socrates, he replied, you are mistaken in your
26  Prot|     mentioning.~Yes, Socrates, he replied; and that is not the only
27  Prot|      meant the confident. Yes, he replied, and the impetuous or goers. (
28  Prot|        impossible.~That, again, I replied, is quite true. And if this
29  Prot|            I said.~Honourable, he replied.~And if honourable, then
30  Prot| honourable thing?~The cowards, he replied.~And what is good and honourable,
31  Prot|         acknowledged to be so, he replied.~And do the cowards knowingly
32  Prot|         The admission of that, he replied, would belie our former
33  Prot|         base confidence?~True, he replied.~And if not base, then honourable?~
34  Prot|          should say cowardice, he replied.~And have they not been
35  Prot|           the enquiry.~Protagoras replied: Socrates, I am not of a