Dialogue

 1  Prot|         come to see you.~Do you wish, he said, to speak with
 2  Prot|     determine whether you would wish to speak to him of your
 3  Prot|  learning, and invention. And I wish that you would, if possible,
 4  Prot| holiness is like justice; and I wish that you would tell me whether
 5  Prot|        do not want this ‘if you wish’ or ‘if you will’ sort of
 6  Prot|      said: Protagoras, I do not wish to force the conversation
 7  Prot|     these long speeches: I only wish that I could. You, on the
 8  Prot|         distinguish ‘will’ and ‘wish,’ and make other charming
 9  Prot|   Simonides. And first of all I wish that you would say whether,
10  Prot|        just because they do not wish to have it thought that
11  Prot|  Socrates should ask.~I said: I wish Protagoras either to ask
12  Prot|       will argue.~And would you wish to begin the enquiry? I
13  Prot|         I said, if that is your wish; for I too ought long since