Dialogue

 1 Intro|         opinion that knowledge is overcome by passion? or does he hold
 2  Prot| commanding thing, which cannot be overcome, and will not allow a man,
 3  Prot|    contrary to knowledge they are overcome by pain, or pleasure, or
 4  Prot|  affection which they call ‘being overcome by pleasure,’ and which
 5  Prot|           not to be called ‘being overcome by pleasure,’ pray, what
 6  Prot|         speaking, is termed being overcome by pleasure? I should answer
 7  Prot|         to show you. When men are overcome by eating and drinking and
 8  Prot|        you not say that they were overcome by pleasure? They will not
 9  Prot|        meaning of the expression ‘overcome by pleasure’; and the whole
10  Prot|        what is good because he is overcome at the moment by pleasure.
11  Prot|           ask, Why? Because he is overcome, is the first answer. And
12  Prot|         answer. And by what is he overcome? the enquirer will proceed
13  Prot|         shall only say that he is overcome. ‘By what?’ he will reiterate.
14  Prot|          ought not, because he is overcome by good. Is that, he will
15  Prot|       then he who, as we say, was overcome by pleasure, would not have
16  Prot|           when you speak of being overcome—‘what do you mean,’ he will
17  Prot|      knowingly, and because he is overcome by pleasure, which is unworthy
18  Prot|    pleasure, which is unworthy to overcome. What measure is there of
19  Prot|           is the meaning of being overcome by pleasure if not this?—
20  Prot|           is the meaning of being overcome by pleasure; —ignorance,