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1 Intro| time, whether in the year 425 B.C., or in any other. But 2 Intro| power of self-improvement; (7) the religious allegory 3 Intro| only be imparted by Zeus; (8) in the latter part of the 4 Prot| what country?~SOCRATES: Of Abdera.~COMPANION: And is this 5 Intro| them—is indicated by the absence of any allusion to the doctrine 6 Intro| intention of flattering him into absurdities. First a distinction is 7 Intro| The manifest futility and absurdity of the explanation of (Greek), 8 Prot| in censure he might have abundant opportunity of finding fault).~‘ 9 Intro| though manifestly absurd, is accepted by the company, and meets 10 Prot| he means to say that he accepts and finds no fault with 11 Prot| toil, or disease, or other accident (the only real doing ill 12 Intro| As Protagoras declines to accommodate him, he rises to depart, 13 Intro| is not knowledge, but is accompanied with knowledge; or to point 14 Prot| is reputed to be the most accomplished of speakers. There is no 15 Prot| acknowledge that the art which accomplishes this result is the art of 16 Intro| learn of Protagoras only the accomplishments which befit an Athenian 17 Intro| Protagoras deems it more in accordance with his character to maintain 18 Prot| way of reading the passage accounts for the insertion of (Greek) ‘ 19 Intro| disregard of the historical accuracy which is sometimes demanded 20 Intro| answer to the favourite accusation of the Sophists that they 21 Prot| take themselves to task and accuse them of neglect; and they 22 Prot| a Lesbian, who has been accustomed to speak a barbarous language, 23 Prot| who, when beleaguered by Achilles, summons the Simois to aid 24 Prot| of mankind; such an open acknowledgement appears to me to be a better 25 Prot| answer him?~I could not help acknowledging the truth of what he said, 26 Prot| no harm will come of the acknowledgment that I am a Sophist. And 27 Prot| their kinsmen or any other acquaintances, old or young, and live 28 Prot| virtue, however difficult the acquisition, is easy (Works and Days).’~ 29 Prot| unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that manner. But he who 30 Prot| you refer when you call actual pain a good, you can show 31 Prot| Eryximachus, the son of Acumenus, and Phaedrus the Myrrhinusian, 32 Prot| other.~And there is the acute in sound?~True.~To which 33 Prot| runs away as a rogue, in addition to any other objections 34 Intro| soothing flatteries are addressed to Protagoras by Callias 35 Prot| also there were the two Adeimantuses, one the son of Cepis, and 36 Prot| As I have often said, I admire you above all men whom I 37 Prot| I replied, I have always admired, and do now heartily applaud 38 Prot| them in the light of his admirers, I said: But why should 39 Prot| that he is mad and go and admonish him; but when honesty is 40 Prot| Socrates!~Education and admonition commence in the first years 41 Prot| these are contained many admonitions, and many tales, and praises, 42 Prot| if you talk with me, to adopt the latter or more compendious 43 Prot| of them, as I was saying, adopted these arts as veils or disguises 44 Intro| himself. Hippocrates readily adopts the suggestion of Socrates 45 Prot| when men act rightly and advantageously they seem to you to be temperate?~ 46 Prot| builders are summoned as advisers; when the question is one 47 Intro| moderates his excitement and advises him to find out ‘what Protagoras 48 Prot| when the question is an affair of state, then everybody 49 Prot| pleasure, or some of those affections which I was just now mentioning.~ 50 Intro| of composition; and the affinities of the Dialogues, when they 51 Intro| in a similar spirit. The affinity of the Protagoras to the 52 Prot| argument is absurd which affirms that a man often does evil 53 Intro| were only to be regarded as affording a field for the ingenuity 54 Prot| first-rate Sophist. Your own Agathocles pretended to be a musician, 55 Prot| that I heard him called Agathon, and my suspicion is that 56 Prot| sorry physician, and do but aggravate a disorder which I am seeking 57 Prot| replied; he came two days ago: have you only just heard 58 Intro| Theaetetus, are quite as agreeable as the argument, we arrive 59 Prot| remember, both of us were agreeing that there was nothing mightier 60 Prot| disposed to abide by our agreement, that I should show the 61 Intro| knowledge is power? Protagoras agrees that knowledge is certainly 62 Intro| all writers of fiction, aims only at the probable, and 63 Prot| nature was to fly in the air or burrow in the ground; 64 Prot| I said, you need not be alarmed; for we are not Sophists, 65 Prot| which you are correcting.~Alas! I said, Protagoras; then 66 Prot| with the word of Pittacus, albeit the utterance of a wise 67 Prot| he seems to me to be an all-wise and inspired man; but I 68 Intro| self-improvement; (7) the religious allegory should be noticed, in which 69 Intro| him unreasonable in not allowing Protagoras the liberty which 70 | along 71 Prot| kindred; and he would raise altars and images of them. He was 72 Prot| would agree to the latter alternative, if I am not mistaken?~He 73 Prot| man only, or inexpedient altogether? and do you call the latter 74 Prot| You seem to have a great ambition to make me answer, Socrates, 75 Prot| And Simonides, who was ambitious of the fame of wisdom, was 76 Prot| not able to converse or amuse one another, while they 77 Prot| Phaedrus the Myrrhinusian, and Andron the son of Androtion, and 78 Prot| Myrrhinusian, and Andron the son of Androtion, and there were strangers 79 Prot| injurious to the hair of every animal with the exception of man, 80 Prot| and I must request you to announce us. At last, after a good 81 Prot| eunuch, and who was probably annoyed at the great inroad of the 82 Prot| would not play the part of answerer any more if he could help; 83 Intro| but may be also deemed an anticipation of some ‘metaphysic of the 84 Prot| son of Philomelus; also Antimoerus of Mende, who of all the 85 Prot| some others. I was very anxious to hear what Prodicus was 86 Prot| ability quite a match for anybody of his own age. I believe 87 | anyhow 88 | anywhere 89 Prot| dedicated in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, as the first-fruits 90 Intro| countryman of Simonides, but apparently only with the intention 91 Prot| come to his aid. I must appeal to you, like the river Scamander 92 Prot| away with the effect of appearances, and, showing the truth, 93 Prot| Homer is a poet; but what appellation is given to Protagoras? 94 Intro| point, which elicits the applause of the audience.~Here occurs 95 Intro| condemnation of the same arts when applied to mythology in the Phaedrus, 96 Prot| nor arms of defence. The appointed hour was approaching when 97 Prot| the power of holding and apprehending an argument. Now if Protagoras 98 Prot| being in fact under the apprehension that Cleinias would be corrupted 99 Prot| which others are afraid to approach.~In the next place, you 100 Prot| The appointed hour was approaching when man in his turn was 101 Prot| circulated and received the approbation of the wise, ‘Hard is it 102 Prot| and to be the friend and approver of another; and that there 103 Prot| arbiter—all of you shall be arbiters.~This was generally approved, 104 Prot| to go to Polycleitus the Argive, or Pheidias the Athenian, 105 Prot| inferior to Socrates in argumentative skill, that is enough for 106 Intro| results.~The real difficulties arise out of the extreme subtlety 107 Prot| conclude a discussion which had arisen between us as we were going 108 Intro| allowed by Plato to make the Aristotelian distinction, and say that 109 Prot| with swiftness; some he armed, and others he left unarmed; 110 | around 111 Prot| cautious; great jealousies are aroused by his proceedings, and 112 Prot| chairs and benches, and arranged them by Hippias, where the 113 Prot| you only just heard of his arrival?~Yes, by the gods, he said; 114 Intro| agreeable as the argument, we arrive at the great Socratic thesis 115 Prot| was not long in inventing articulate speech and names; and he 116 Prot| to teach the sons of our artisans this same art which they 117 Prot| of the sons of many other artists. As yet I ought not to say 118 Prot| Hippocrates of Cos, the Asclepiad, and were about to give 119 Intro| than a half-truth (6) in ascribing to man, who in his outward 120 Prot| Socrates, are you awake or asleep?~I knew his voice, and said: 121 Prot| own age. I believe that he aspires to political eminence; and 122 Intro| still holds out against the assaults of the Socratic dialectic. 123 Prot| Now that the company are assembled, Socrates, tell me about 124 Intro| who recognize in their assemblies the distinction between 125 Prot| are met together in the assembly, and the matter in hand 126 Intro| morality or propriety of assenting to this; he would rather 127 Intro| dialect. To all this Prodicus assents; but when Protagoras reclaims, 128 Intro| sides. Protagoras began by asserting, and Socrates by denying, 129 Prot| equal meed should not be assigned to both of them; but to 130 Prot| answered: Young man, if you associate with me, on the very first 131 Prot| and become better if he associated with him: and then suppose 132 Intro| Socrates is not merely a hasty assumption, but may be also deemed 133 Intro| taught, if Protagoras had not assured him of the fact, for two 134 Prot| their ignorance of dangers?~Assuredly, he said.~And because of 135 Prot| Hippias certain physical and astronomical questions, and he, ex cathedra, 136 Prot| to learn calculation, and astronomy, and geometry, and music ( 137 Intro| out in ancient times by Athenaeus, and are noticed by Schleiermacher 138 Prot| victory over some famous athlete, he would carry off the 139 Prot| would be better and is also attainable, when he might do the better. 140 Prot| good qualities which are attained by study and exercise and 141 Intro| like the arts, gifts or attainments of special individuals, 142 Prot| contradicting yourself now by your attempt to prove that all things 143 Prot| strange thing? I paid no attention to him, and several times 144 Prot| journeys, he, like Orpheus, attracting them his voice, and they 145 Prot| gift, and that this is the attribute of him and of no other. 146 Intro| theories of sensation which are attributed to him in the Theaetetus 147 Prot| having a share of the divine attributes, was at first the only one 148 Prot| know that I am right in attributing to the Lacedaemonians this 149 Prot| he said; for you are the author of the discussion.~May I 150 Intro| the Sophists representing average public opinion and Socrates 151 Prot| pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to 152 Prot| and in not doing or in avoiding the less, what would be 153 Prot| bawled out: Socrates, are you awake or asleep?~I knew his voice, 154 Prot| training or knowledge of them—aye, and confiscation as well 155 Intro| whether in the year 425 B.C., or in any other. But Plato, 156 Prot| impossibility to me, as if you bade me run a race with Crison 157 Prot| skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, 158 Intro| and then by Prodicus in balanced and sententious language: 159 Prot| him turned back, then the band of listeners parted regularly 160 Prot| instantly gave the door a hearty bang with both his hands. Again 161 Prot| been accustomed to speak a barbarous language, is natural.~Do 162 Prot| and he came rushing in and bawled out: Socrates, are you awake 163 Prot| said, I admit that justice bears a resemblance to holiness, 164 Prot| the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that manner. But 165 Prot| wrapped up in sheepskins and bedclothes, of which there seemed to 166 Prot| and clothes and shoes and beds, and drew sustenance from 167 Intro| the accomplishments which befit an Athenian gentleman, and 168 Prot| not let me off, and they begged me to choose an arbiter. 169 Prot| for the use of the young beginner, and gives him the tablet 170 Prot| you proceed as you have begun.~Well then, I said, let 171 Prot| prytanes. This is their way of behaving about professors of the 172 Prot| of them.~Also, ‘my eyes beheld Tantalus (Od.);’ for Prodicus 173 | behind 174 Prot| Socrates, you are strange beings; there are you, Socrates, 175 Prot| Scamander in Homer, who, when beleaguered by Achilles, summons the 176 Prot| that, he replied, would belie our former admissions.~But 177 Prot| ready to go—against dangers, believing them to be dangers, or not 178 Intro| and of leading Athenians belonging to the Socratic circle. 179 Prot| suspicion is that he is the beloved of Pausanias. There was 180 Prot| which he reads sitting on a bench at school; in these are 181 Prot| changeable is the nature of the benefit), that which is the greatest 182 Prot| greatly harmed or greatly benefited; and therefore we should 183 Prot| and blows, like a piece of bent or warped wood. At a later 184 Prot| Pittacus of Mitylene, and Bias of Priene, and our own Solon, 185 Prot| the same stadium, you must bid him slacken his speed to 186 Intro| inference that Plato intended to blacken the character of the Sophists; 187 Prot| Pittacus, I would never have blamed, if you had spoken what 188 Prot| says, ‘to find a perfectly blameless man among those who partake 189 Prot| the poem, forgetting, and blaming Pittacus and refusing to 190 Prot| to man; God only has this blessing; ‘but man cannot help being 191 Prot| government, who were not blinded by them; and as to the people, 192 Prot| praise his own flesh and blood. And Simonides, as is probable, 193 Prot| as if I had received a blow from the hand of an expert 194 Prot| for theft, owing to the blunder of Epimetheus.~Now man, 195 Prot| him?~He answered, with a blush upon his face (for the day 196 Prot| gymnastic, in order that their bodies may better minister to the 197 Intro| of human life one common bond by which the virtues are 198 Prot| principles of cities and the bonds of friendship and conciliation. 199 Prot| ask of any of them, like books, they can neither answer 200 Prot| still stood fixed to hear (Borrowed by Milton, “Paradise Lost”.).’~ 201 Prot| from the hand of an expert boxer, when I heard his words 202 Prot| are desired. And when the boy has learned his letters 203 Prot| illustration, some other pursuit or branch of knowledge which may be 204 Prot| most confident are also the bravest, and upon that view again 205 Prot| in a long harangue, like brazen pots, which when they are 206 Prot| day-break; when the day breaks, then we will go. For Protagoras 207 Prot| flute instead of their own breath, to be the medium of intercourse 208 Prot| a question he can answer briefly; and when he asks he will 209 Intro| interests, threads of philosophy broken and resumed, satirical reflections 210 Intro| great nation because they bruise their ears; the far-fetched 211 Prot| go about with their ears bruised in imitation of them, and 212 Prot| had distributed among the brute animals all the qualities 213 Prot| relates to building, the builders are summoned as advisers; 214 Prot| matter in hand relates to building, the builders are summoned 215 Prot| a man become truly good, built four-square in hands and 216 Prot| and the physician’s use of burning, cutting, drugging, and 217 Prot| was to fly in the air or burrow in the ground; this was 218 Prot| make use, whenever I am busy about these questions, in 219 Prot| ignorant, unless he who buys of them happens to be a 220 Prot| imitation of them, and have the caestus bound on their arms, and 221 Prot| be angry with those whose calamities they suppose to be due to 222 Prot| also Critias the son of Callaeschrus.~On entering we stopped 223 Prot| hoofs and hair and hard and callous skins under their feet. 224 Prot| others, seeing that justice calls men to account. Now when 225 Prot| according to their own natural capacities as flute-players, and the 226 Prot| as far as each had the capacity, and everybody was freely 227 Prot| the ode, —I have made a careful study of it.~Very well, 228 Prot| harm to it, would you not carefully consider and ask the opinion 229 Intro| offered by Socrates is a caricature of the methods of interpretation 230 Prot| the question relates to carpentering or any other mechanical 231 Prot| more than we can become carpenters or anything of that sort; 232 Prot| yourself and of your friends in carrying out at any price this determination, 233 Prot| Chenian; and seventh in the catalogue of wise men was the Lacedaemonian 234 Intro| who is supposed at once to catch the familiar sound, just 235 Prot| astronomical questions, and he, ex cathedra, was determining their several 236 Prot| pleasures than it gives, or causes pains greater than the pleasure. 237 Prot| me to be a better sort of caution than concealment. Nor do 238 Prot| conversation, ought to be very cautious; great jealousies are aroused 239 Prot| Simonides and his countrymen the Ceans, when they spoke of ‘hard’ 240 Prot| whether virtue can be taught? Cease to wonder, for the opposite 241 Prot| censure him because he is censorious.~‘For I am satisfied’ he 242 Prot| Adeimantuses, one the son of Cepis, and the other of Leucolophides, 243 Prot| Pausanias of the deme of Cerameis, and with Pausanias was 244 Prot| the opposite cloister on a chair of state, and around him 245 Prot| talk; we ourselves took the chairs and benches, and arranged 246 Prot| understand the word ‘hard’ (chalepon) in the sense which Simonides 247 Prot| nor ask; and if any one challenges the least particular of 248 Prot| application (so various and changeable is the nature of the benefit), 249 Intro| he and his adversary had changed sides. Protagoras began 250 Prot| appears’?~And that is now the charm of Alcibiades.~COMPANION: 251 Prot| know that you have been in chase of the fair Alcibiades. 252 Prot| Who is so foolish as to chastise or instruct the ugly, or 253 Prot| words and the sound of the cheering; and to confess the truth, 254 Prot| the Lindian, and Myson the Chenian; and seventh in the catalogue 255 Prot| then he says, Uncover your chest and back to me that I may 256 Intro| or that pleasure is the chief or only good, is distinctly 257 Prot| commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end 258 Prot| men was the Lacedaemonian Chilo. All these were lovers and 259 Intro| Socratic dialectic. No one chooses the evil or refuses the 260 Prot| as the man-haters in his Chorus, you would be only too glad 261 Prot| unseemly; for if the person chosen was inferior, then the inferior 262 Intro| The imaginary ones are (1) Chronological,—which were pointed out 263 Prot| Pittacus which was privately circulated and received the approbation 264 Prot| Now whom does the force of circumstance overpower in the command 265 Prot| extend to entering into the citadel of heaven, where Zeus dwelt, 266 Intro| rhetorical discourses or citations from the poets. The second 267 Prot| they are saying; people who cite them declaring, some that 268 Prot| COMPANION: What do you mean—a citizen or a foreigner?~SOCRATES: 269 Prot| him, until either he is clamoured down and retires of himself; 270 Intro| uncertain. (3) There is another class of difficulties, which may 271 Prot| position at the end of the clause of the word ‘truly,’ and 272 Prot| questions of you but that of clearing up my own difficulties. 273 Intro| Socrates seeking for increased clearness and unity of ideas. But 274 Prot| and our own Solon, and Cleobulus the Lindian, and Myson the 275 Prot| other hand, when you have climbed the height, Then, to retain 276 Prot| caught hold of this old cloak of mine. He said: We cannot 277 Prot| training, and wear short cloaks; for they imagine that these 278 Prot| heaven; clothing them with close hair and thick skins sufficient 279 Intro| important work, at any rate as closely connected with it. The Io 280 Prot| also constructed houses and clothes and shoes and beds, and 281 Prot| against the seasons of heaven; clothing them with close hair and 282 Intro| reduced to two only, at last coalesce in one. The assent of Protagoras 283 Prot| them against the winter cold and able to resist the summer 284 Prot| without difficulty I began to collect myself, and looking at Hippocrates, 285 Prot| Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, 286 Intro| identified himself at the commencement of the Dialogue, Socrates 287 Intro| declines this offer, but commends Socrates’ earnestness and 288 Intro| Protagoras, and is a facetious commentary on their differences. (4) 289 Intro| preconceived notions of commentators, who imagine that Protagoras 290 Prot| even know to whom you are committing your soul and whether the 291 Prot| another mind; and that men are commonly supposed to know the things 292 Prot| poets seems to me like a commonplace entertainment to which a 293 Prot| art cannot be taught or communicated by man to man. I say that 294 Prot| present we must abide by the compact which was made between Socrates 295 Prot| that a good man might often compel himself to love and praise 296 Prot| adopt the latter or more compendious method.~Socrates, he replied, 297 Prot| way of escape. Thus did he compensate them with the view of preventing 298 Intro| Protagoras is in every way complete when their minds are fairly 299 Intro| part of the Dialogue, and completely in the second. Nor does 300 Prot| opportunity of resuming and completing our unfinished argument.~ 301 Prot| if I am not mistaken, he composed the entire poem with the 302 Prot| the power of knowing what compositions of the poets are correct, 303 Prot| my price, but there is no compulsion; and if he does not like, 304 Prot| justice and the laws, not concealing them as he would conceal 305 Prot| better sort of caution than concealment. Nor do I neglect other 306 Intro| Dialogue, is disposed to concede); and also (3) in his explanation 307 Intro| criticism of Simonides, and are conceived in a similar spirit. The 308 Prot| not that, as far as I am concerned, any reflection is of much 309 Prot| whether the comparison holds concerning the parts of virtue. Do 310 Prot| bonds of friendship and conciliation. Hermes asked Zeus how he 311 Prot| there we stopped in order to conclude a discussion which had arisen 312 Intro| great difficulty.~Socrates concludes by professing his disinterested 313 Intro| may be compared with his condemnation of the same arts when applied 314 Prot| punishment is either exiled or condemned to death under the idea 315 Intro| man, who in his outward conditions is more helpless than the 316 Intro| dialogue within a dialogue,’ conducted by Socrates and Protagoras 317 Prot| And these base fears and confidences originate in ignorance and 318 Prot| discoveries, and who may confirm him in them. And I would 319 Prot| knowledge of them—aye, and confiscation as well as death, and, in 320 Prot| perceiving this terrible confusion of our ideas, have a great 321 Intro| rich Callias, in which are congregated the noblest and wisest of 322 Intro| at any rate as closely connected with it. The Io and the 323 Prot| enabled the Lacedaemonians to conquer the other Hellenes. Now 324 Prot| worthy or not worthy of conquering the evil’? And in answer 325 Prot| of gymnastics; they are conscious that only a perfectly educated 326 Prot| simply because they give the consciousness of pleasure of whatever 327 Prot| encouraging; at length, he consented to answer.~Now then, I said, 328 Intro| wisest of the Athenians. He considers openness to be the best 329 Intro| play a part more or less conspicuous towards the end. There is 330 Prot| subject of many enmities and conspiracies. Now the art of the Sophist 331 Prot| dragged away or put out by the constables at the command of the prytanes. 332 Prot| dissembles his feelings, and constrains himself to praise them; 333 Prot| speech and names; and he also constructed houses and clothes and shoes 334 Prot| the word ‘truly’ (Greek), construing the saying of Pittacus thus ( 335 Prot| all,—about this you never consulted either with your father 336 Intro| Io and the lesser Hippias contain discussions of the Poets, 337 Prot| carry off the palm among his contemporaries. And if I am not mistaken, 338 Intro| degree similar; but he still contends that the fifth, courage, 339 Prot| ever so little, we must be content with the result. A teacher 340 Prot| nonsense or games, but are contented with one another’s conversation, 341 Prot| is clearly proved by the context, in which he says that God 342 Intro| as they can speak, and is continued by the state when they pass 343 Prot| only object, I said, in continuing the discussion, has been 344 Prot| one hand a man cannot be continuously good, but that he may become 345 Prot| virtue cannot be taught, contradicting yourself now by your attempt 346 Prot| destruction by one another, he contrived also a means of protecting 347 Intro| pass out of the parental control. (4) Nor need we wonder 348 Prot| very sure that the other controversy which has been carried on 349 Intro| poem which was designed to controvert it. No, says he, Pittacus; 350 Intro| which we pass from the old conventional morality to a higher conception 351 Prot| and speculation: If a man converses with the most ordinary Lacedaemonian, 352 Prot| Wherefore I should much prefer conversing with you, if you want to 353 Prot| transgresses them is to be corrected, or, in other words, called 354 Prot| the sentence which you are correcting.~Alas! I said, Protagoras; 355 Prot| but Protagoras said: Your correction, Socrates, involves a greater 356 Intro| the Philebus offer further corrections of the teaching of the Protagoras; 357 Prot| correct you, as Prodicus corrects me when I use the word ‘ 358 Prot| separate underlying essence and corresponding thing having a peculiar 359 Prot| apprehension that Cleinias would be corrupted by Alcibiades, took him 360 Prot| going to Hippocrates of Cos, the Asclepiad, and were 361 Prot| was sitting by him on the couches near, Pausanias of the deme 362 Prot| Callias, that we hold a council in which you may sit and 363 Prot| admitting every man as a counsellor about this sort of virtue, 364 Intro| inability to speak short?~Counsels of moderation are urged 365 Prot| more philosophers in those countries than anywhere else in the 366 Prot| who had no education, or courts of justice, or laws, or 367 Prot| this point of view, the cowardly and the courageous go to 368 Intro| the Euthydemus and of the Cratylus, the veil of irony is never 369 Prot| participate in pleasure or create pleasure?~Certainly, he 370 Prot| that these also should be created, the gods fashioned them 371 Prot| gods only, and no mortal creatures. But when the time came 372 Prot| says to Scopas the son of Creon the Thessalian:~‘Hardly 373 Prot| in this they are like the Cretans— in order that they may 374 Intro| disputed. But there are no criteria which afford any real grounds 375 Intro| parallel to the ironical criticism of Simonides, and are conceived 376 Intro| trying and often sophistical cross-examination of Socrates. Although once 377 Intro| made, is now taken up and cross-examined by Socrates:—~‘Is justice 378 Prot| have a pride in their high cultivation. And hereby you may know 379 Prot| emulators and disciples of the culture of the Lacedaemonians, and 380 Intro| escape in this way from the cunning of Socrates, who inveigles 381 Prot| disorder which I am seeking to cure.~Such is the fact, he said.~ 382 Intro| of the interpreter.~This curious passage is, therefore, to 383 Prot| sell or retail them to any customer who is in want of them, 384 Prot| memory, I will ask you to cut your answers shorter, if 385 Prot| physician’s use of burning, cutting, drugging, and starving? 386 Intro| personages have been already damaged by the mock heroic description 387 Prot| the secret intention of damaging Pittacus and his saying.~ 388 Prot| see no flute-girls, nor dancing-girls, nor harp-girls; and they 389 Prot| the discourse he will be darting out some notable saying, 390 Prot| At length, when the truth dawned upon me, that he had really 391 Prot| and wait about there until day-break; when the day breaks, then 392 Prot| As then, if I had been deaf, and you were going to converse 393 Prot| the wholesale or retail dealer, and carry them away in 394 Prot| what he sells, like the dealers wholesale or retail who 395 Intro| his own liberal mode of dealing with his pupils, as if in 396 Prot| Sophist, Hippocrates, one who deals wholesale or retail in the 397 Prot| aid him, saying:~‘Brother dear, let us both together stay 398 Prot| and do not hazard your dearest interests at a game of chance. 399 Prot| Is not the latter that deceiving art which makes us wander 400 Prot| in dispute can never be decided. This sort of entertainment 401 Intro| which commences with a declaration on the part of Socrates 402 Prot| and Prodicus and Hippias declare that they are the physicians 403 Prot| he pays no more than he declares to be their value.~Such 404 Prot| saying; people who cite them declaring, some that the poet has 405 Prot| sort of entertainment they decline, and prefer to talk with 406 Prot| And they met together and dedicated in the temple of Apollo 407 Prot| companion are readier in deed, word, or thought; but if 408 Intro| assumption, but may be also deemed an anticipation of some ‘ 409 Intro| the only good,’ Protagoras deems it more in accordance with 410 Prot| inner circle, and his fine deep voice made an echo in the 411 Prot| thick skins sufficient to defend them against the winter 412 Intro| is the just. He therefore defends himself with his favourite 413 Intro| requested by Alcibiades to defer.~The argument is now resumed, 414 Prot| virtue in which the other is deficient may be acquired. If you 415 Prot| if not, I will ask you to define your meaning, and I shall 416 Prot| you would agree with me in defining this fear or terror as expectation 417 Intro| by dogmatic statements or definite results.~The real difficulties 418 Prot| I use the word ‘awful’ (deinon) as a term of praise. If 419 Prot| morning you go to him, never deliberating or taking the opinion of 420 Prot| a few to share in their deliberations; and when any one else interferes, 421 Intro| interpreters, and whom he delights to identify with them. ( 422 Prot| the temple of Apollo at Delphi, as the first-fruits of 423 Prot| couches near, Pausanias of the deme of Cerameis, and with Pausanias 424 Prot| such a science furnishes a demonstrative answer to the question which 425 Intro| and elsewhere, or to his denial of the existence of the 426 Prot| with them and expose and denounce them to others, under the 427 Prot| from masters, in his own department of politics neither taught 428 Prot| up, and was in the act of departure. Son of Hipponicus, I replied, 429 Prot| salvation of human life to depend on the choice of odd and 430 Prot| the good or evil of which depends the well-being of your all,— 431 Intro| historical Socrates as he is depicted to us in Xenophon’s Memorabilia. 432 Intro| that in all this Plato is depicting an imaginary Protagoras; 433 Prot| the body as food, you may deposit them at home and call in 434 Intro| identify with them. (5) The depreciating spirit in which Socrates 435 Prot| real doing ill is to be deprived of knowledge), but the bad 436 Prot| all times helpless. The descent of a great storm may make 437 Prot| and by what name would you describe it?~But why, Socrates, should 438 Intro| the mouth of Socrates, who describes a conversation which had 439 Intro| damaged by the mock heroic description of them in the introduction. 440 Prot| defects far more than they deserve, in order that the odium 441 Intro| woven together in a single design, and moving towards one 442 Prot| to Protagoras? how is he designated?~They call him a Sophist, 443 Prot| Hippocrates, instead of desiring your acquaintance, wished 444 Intro| view of showing that he is destined to be overthrown by a greater 445 Prot| consequence was that they were destroyed by the wild beasts, for 446 Prot| roots of a tree, but utterly destructive if thrown upon the shoots 447 Prot| be said in praise of the details of the poem, which is a 448 Intro| rises to depart, but is detained by Callias, who thinks him 449 Intro| after many interruptions and detentions by the way, which, as Theodorus 450 Prot| manner the good may become deteriorated by time, or toil, or disease, 451 Prot| sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again. 452 Prot| not knowing how he could devise his salvation, stole the 453 Prot| others he left unarmed; and devised for the latter some other 454 Intro| facetious commentary on their differences. (4) The general treatment 455 Prot| worthy of this height of dignity, but should only quarrel 456 Prot| instruct the ugly, or the diminutive, or the feeble? And for 457 Prot| I got up and came hither direct.~I, who knew the very courageous 458 Intro| Nor does he appear at any disadvantage when subjected to ‘the question’ 459 Prot| enough to extinguish the disagreeable sensation of smell in meats 460 Prot| and yet I know not how to disbelieve your assertion. And I ought 461 Prot| of their superiority were disclosed, all men would be practising 462 Prot| world. You, Socrates, are discontented, and why? Because all men 463 Intro| be taught by rhetorical discourses or citations from the poets. 464 Prot| of use in helping us to discover how courage is related to 465 Prot| to whom he may show his discoveries, and who may confirm him 466 Prot| in which you may sit and discuss.—This was agreed upon, and 467 Prot| which you and I have been discussing to the domain of poetry; 468 Intro| resumed, not without some disdainful remarks of Socrates on the 469 Prot| How great would be the disgrace then, if we, who know the 470 Prot| to battle honourable or disgraceful? I said.~Honourable, he 471 Prot| fearing this odium, veiled and disguised themselves under various 472 Prot| adopted these arts as veils or disguises because they were afraid 473 Prot| if they know that he is dishonest, yet, if the man comes publicly 474 Prot| tells the truth about his dishonesty, then, what in the other 475 Prot| But I see that you are disinclined, and as I have an engagement 476 Intro| concludes by professing his disinterested love of the truth, and remarks 477 Prot| and do but aggravate a disorder which I am seeking to cure.~ 478 Prot| mankind at first lived dispersed, and there were no cities. 479 Prot| were again in process of dispersion and destruction. Zeus feared 480 Prot| would like to have a little display and glorification in the 481 Intro| finds an opportunity for displaying his distinctions of language, 482 Prot| had followed the method of disputation which my adversaries desired, 483 Prot| and the point which is in dispute can never be decided. This 484 Intro| composition, have also been much disputed. But there are no criteria 485 Intro| in the Laches) an extreme disregard of the historical accuracy 486 Prot| increased: but the good man dissembles his feelings, and constrains 487 Prot| do you neither assent nor dissent, Protagoras?~Finish the 488 Prot| are not only distinct, but dissimilar, both in themselves and 489 Intro| Athenian people are right in distinguishing between the skilled and 490 Prot| well?~I should say, the divers.~And the reason of this 491 Intro| the future,’ in which the divided elements of human nature 492 Intro| intellectual are always dividing, yet they must be reunited, 493 Prot| man, having a share of the divine attributes, was at first 494 Prot| who have confidence when diving into a well?~I should say, 495 Intro| intended to express the rival doctrines of Socrates and Protagoras, 496 Prot| whom they regard as evil doers; and hence, we may infer 497 Intro| points of view, and not by dogmatic statements or definite results.~ 498 Prot| oxen only, and some for dogs; and some for no animals, 499 Prot| have been discussing to the domain of poetry; we will speak 500 Prot| understanding. And I think that the door-keeper, who was a eunuch, and who