Dialogue

 1 Intro|     succeeds in making his two ‘friends,’ Prodicus and Hippias,
 2  Prot|        give him money, and make friends with him, he will make you
 3  Prot|         I have, and all that my friends have, if he pleased. But
 4  Prot|         spend the money of your friends as well. Now suppose, that
 5  Prot|         ask the opinion of your friends and kindred, and deliberate
 6  Prot|         of yourself and of your friends in carrying out at any price
 7  Prot|  Prodicus and Hippias and their friends to hear us?~Very good, he
 8  Prot|       are the companions of our friends here, Paralus and Xanthippus,
 9  Prot|    another and not wrangle; for friends argue with friends out of
10  Prot|          for friends argue with friends out of good-will, but only
11  Prot|        reckon to be kinsmen and friends and fellow-citizens, by
12  Prot| Simonides answering him): ‘O my friends,’ says Pittacus, ‘hard is
13  Prot|      best. When we say to them: Friends, you are mistaken, and are
14  Prot|        point of view, and say: ‘Friends, when you speak of goods
15  Prot|       this subject?’ Excuse me, friends, I should reply; but in
16  Prot|         Would you not admit, my friends, that this is true? I am
17  Prot|       they would.~Well then, my friends, I say to them; seeing that
18  Prot|      that the greatest. And our friends Protagoras and Prodicus
19  Prot|        did the others.~Then, my friends, what do you say to this?