Dialogue

 1 Intro| transcendental, and though full of meaning and insight, hardly intelligible
 2  Prot|             COMPANION: What is the meaning of this? Has anything happened
 3  Prot|           you, I said; and is your meaning that you teach the art of
 4  Prot|         get time to think what the meaning of the poet really was.
 5  Prot|       awful’ war, ‘awful’ poverty, meaning by the term ‘awful,’ evil.
 6  Prot|             that was certainly his meaning; and he is twitting Pittacus
 7  Prot|      Protagoras, that this was the meaning of Simonides, of which our
 8  Prot|          other. For if this be his meaning, Prodicus would impute to
 9  Prot|           I imagine to be the real meaning of Simonides in this poem,
10  Prot|          saying, terse and full of meaning, with unerring aim; and
11  Prot|       follows shows this to be the meaning. A great deal might be said
12  Prot|       Protagoras, I take to be the meaning of Simonides in this poem.~
13  Prot|       cannot interrogate about the meaning of what they are saying;
14  Prot|         some that the poet has one meaning, and others that he has
15  Prot|        will ask you to define your meaning, and I shall not take you
16  Prot|        Certainly, he said.~Then my meaning is, that in as far as they
17  Prot|       difficulty in explaining the meaning of the expression ‘overcome
18  Prot|          and Socrates, what is the meaning of being overcome by pleasure
19  Prot|            This, therefore, is the meaning of being overcome by pleasure; —