Dialogue

 1  Prot|    SOCRATES: Yes; and I have heard and said many things.~COMPANION:
 2  Prot|      ago: have you only just heard of his arrival?~Yes, by
 3  Prot|   also I have never seen nor heard him; (when he visited Athens
 4  Prot|      to his keeping.~When he heard me say this, he replied:
 5  Prot| Protagoras; and when we have heard what he has to say, we may
 6  Prot|      the Sophists, must have heard us talking. At any rate,
 7  Prot|     nature. I thought that I heard him called Agathon, and
 8  Prot|      determine when you have heard the purpose of our visit.~
 9  Prot|    on the day before.~When I heard this, I said: Protagoras,
10  Prot|     has come to you, and had heard him say, as he has heard
11  Prot|     heard him say, as he has heard you say, that every day
12  Prot|   Orthagoras the Theban, and heard him say the same thing,
13  Prot|  about what?~When Protagoras heard me say this, he replied:
14  Prot|       Perhaps I may not have heard you rightly, but you seemed
15  Prot| should reply, ‘You certainly heard that said, but not, as you
16  Prot|      be short enough?~I have heard, I said, that you can speak
17  Prot|    should have liked to have heard you.~Thus I spoke, and was
18  Prot|  sides should be impartially heard, and yet an equal meed should
19  Prot|      an expert boxer, when I heard his words and the sound
20  Prot|   Works and Days).’~Prodicus heard and approved; but Protagoras
21  Prot|   voice, that voice would be heard laughing at us and saying: ‘