Dialogue

 1 Intro|         Alcibiades to defer.~The argument is now resumed, not without
 2 Intro|       except from ignorance. The argument is drawn out in an imaginary ‘
 3 Intro|  thoughts into both sides of the argument, and certainly does not
 4 Intro|     science of interrogation and argument; also of the irony of Socrates
 5 Intro|   Protagoras has the best of the argument and represents the better
 6 Intro|   undertake, not one side of the argument only, but both, when Protagoras
 7 Intro|       first thesis. The force of argument, therefore, and not Socrates
 8 Intro|        quite as agreeable as the argument, we arrive at the great
 9  Prot|        has been helping me in an argument. But shall I tell you a
10  Prot|          apologue and resume the argument. Please to consider: Is
11  Prot|        Socrates, and such is the argument by which I endeavour to
12  Prot|         test the validity of the argument; and yet the result may
13  Prot|    refusing, as he said that the argument was not encouraging; at
14  Prot|      holding and apprehending an argument. Now if Protagoras will
15  Prot|          claims a superiority in argument as well, let him ask and
16  Prot|        completing our unfinished argument.~I made these and some similar
17  Prot|       either to proceed with the argument, or distinctly refuse to
18  Prot|         pleasure’; and the whole argument turns upon this. And even
19  Prot|        you say is true, then the argument is absurd which affirms
20  Prot|      well as Protagoras (for the argument is to be yours as well as
21  Prot|    proved by you in the previous argument to be impossible.~That,
22  Prot|           Protagoras?~Finish the argument by yourself, he said.~I
23  Prot| impossible consistently with the argument.~My only object, I said,
24  Prot|          be singular. For if the argument had a human voice, that
25  Prot|         up and deceive us in the argument, as he forgot us in the
26  Prot|    energy and your conduct of an argument. As I have often said, I