Dialogue

 1 Intro|      or hard is explained to mean ‘evil’ in the Cean dialect.
 2 Intro|      might really be made to mean anything, and were only
 3  Prot|       COMPANION: What do you mean—a citizen or a foreigner?~
 4  Prot|   you and me to be proven: I mean to say that the conclusion
 5  Prot| inexpedient are good, do you mean inexpedient for man only,
 6  Prot|     me with you.~What do you mean? he said: how am I to shorten
 7  Prot|    words, but let there be a mean observed by both of you.
 8  Prot|    of Simonides. What did he mean, Prodicus, by the term ‘
 9  Prot|   hard’ meant what all of us mean, not evil, but that which
10  Prot|   gift. Now he cannot surely mean to say that to be good is
11  Prot|     latter words he does not mean to say that all things are
12  Prot|   speak of brave men, do you mean the confident, or another
13  Prot|      nature?~Yes, he said; I mean the impetuous, ready to
14  Prot|    being painful, do you not mean remedial goods, such as
15  Prot|  being overcome—‘what do you mean,’ he will say, ‘but that
16  Prot|      said at first. I do not mean in what he said quite at