Dialogue

 1 Intro|    between himself and the great Sophist at the house of Callias—‘
 2 Intro|      imagine that Protagoras the Sophist ought always to be in the
 3  Prot|      designated?~They call him a Sophist, Socrates, he replied.~Then
 4  Prot|        him in the character of a Sophist?~Certainly.~But suppose
 5  Prot|      suppose that he will make a Sophist of me.~By the gods, I said,
 6  Prot|   Hellenes in the character of a Sophist?~Indeed, Socrates, to confess
 7  Prot|         of a man whom you call a Sophist. And yet I hardly think
 8  Prot|       think that you know what a Sophist is; and if not, then you
 9  Prot|        What is the wisdom of the Sophist, and what is the manufacture
10  Prot|       involved: Of what does the Sophist make a man talk eloquently?
11  Prot|         Then about what does the Sophist make him eloquent? Must
12  Prot|       And what is that which the Sophist knows and makes his disciple
13  Prot|          him: and you call him a Sophist, but are manifestly ignorant
14  Prot|    manifestly ignorant of what a Sophist is; and yet you are going
15  Prot|     words.~I proceeded: Is not a Sophist, Hippocrates, one who deals
16  Prot|        care, my friend, that the Sophist does not deceive us when
17  Prot| conspiracies. Now the art of the Sophist is, as I believe, of great
18  Prot|      Megara, who is a first-rate Sophist. Your own Agathocles pretended
19  Prot|        but was really an eminent Sophist; also Pythocleides the Cean;
20  Prot|       acknowledge myself to be a Sophist and instructor of mankind;
21  Prot|       acknowledgment that I am a Sophist. And I have been now many
22  Prot|         of Hellas that you are a Sophist or teacher of virtue and