Dialogue

 1  Prot|          money, and some one had asked you: What are Polycleitus
 2  Prot|          say the same thing, and asked him, ‘In what shall I become
 3  Prot|         and conciliation. Hermes asked Zeus how he should impart
 4  Prot|    already shown, but when he is asked a question he can answer
 5  Prot|         should answer to him who asked me, that justice is of the
 6  Prot|         suppose that he came and asked us, ‘What were you saying
 7  Prot|       imagine, by me; for I only asked the question; Protagoras
 8  Prot|          not, when a question is asked, slipping away from the
 9  Prot|   answering the precise question asked of him, you and I will unite
10  Prot|          turn those which he was asked in short replies. He began
11  Prot|           and of explaining when asked the reason of the difference.
12  Prot|          not a contradiction? he asked. Reflect.~Well, my friend,
13  Prot|         fact, he said.~How so? I asked.~The poet, he replied, could
14  Prot|          you hear, Protagoras, I asked, what our friend Prodicus
15  Prot|         was said by me. When you asked me, I certainly did say
16  Prot|       confident; but I was never asked whether the confident are
17  Prot|       the courageous; if you had asked me, I should have answered ‘
18  Prot|         most persons whom I have asked the reason of this have
19  Prot|        to the question which you asked of me and Protagoras. At
20  Prot| Protagoras. At the time when you asked the question, if you remember,
21  Prot|        the matter with you. So I asked him whether by the brave