Dialogue

 1  Prot|    Now I want you to tell me truly whether virtue is one whole,
 2  Prot|    one hand can a man become truly good, built four-square
 3  Prot|      Hardly can a man become truly good’; and then a little
 4  Prot|      Hardly can a man become truly good’?~Quite right, said
 5  Prot|     thesis, rejoins that the truly hard thing, Pittacus, is
 6  Prot|    become good, not joining ‘truly’ with ‘good,’ but with ‘
 7  Prot|      the hard thing is to be truly good, as though there were
 8  Prot|    as though there were some truly good men, and there were
 9  Prot| others who were good but not truly good (this would be a very
10  Prot|      trajection of the word ‘truly’ (Greek), construing the
11  Prot|  without a flaw—that is hard truly.’ This way of reading the
12  Prot|      the clause of the word ‘truly,’ and all that follows shows