Dialogue

1503 Intro|            trained politician and the untrained; (2) Because the wisest
1504  Prot|             they who, as you say, are unwilling to go to war, which is a
1505  Prot|               only he who is standing upright but not he who is prostrate
1506 Intro|            Counsels of moderation are urged first in a few words by
1507      | using
1508 Intro|              Here as elsewhere is the usual contrast between the Sophists
1509  Prot|           teach them,—not to take the utmost care that they should learn.
1510  Prot|               of Pittacus, albeit the utterance of a wise man: Hardly can
1511  Prot|       sentences, which they severally uttered. And they met together and
1512  Prot|             the impossible, hoping in vain to find a perfectly faultless
1513  Prot|              My object is to test the validity of the argument; and yet
1514  Prot|              was speaking, and not by valour of arms; considering that
1515 Intro|   distinctions of language, which are valueless and pedantic, because they
1516 Intro|             us too superficial and at variance with the spirit of Plato
1517  Prot|               feet. Then he gave them varieties of food,—herb of the soil
1518  Prot|               you word.’~(this is the vehement way in which he pursues
1519 Intro|              and of the Cratylus, the veil of irony is never withdrawn;
1520  Prot|               it, fearing this odium, veiled and disguised themselves
1521  Prot|            other men, punish and take vengeance on all whom they regard
1522  Prot|                he said, whether I can venture to assert in that unqualified
1523  Prot|              carry them away in other vessels, and before you receive
1524 Intro|               Protagoras explains his views in the form of an apologue,
1525  Prot|        matters proceed? Have you been visiting him, and was he gracious
1526  Prot|               answer, just: would you vote with me or against me?~With
1527  Prot|              entertainment to which a vulgar company have recourse; who,
1528  Prot|              and father and tutor are vying with one another about the
1529  Prot|             found Protagoras taking a walk in the cloister; and next
1530  Prot|             to him, on one side, were walking Callias, the son of Hipponicus,
1531 Intro|             Socrates thinks proper to warn the youth against the dangers
1532  Prot|               like a piece of bent or warped wood. At a later stage they
1533  Prot|               president; he will keep watch over your words and will
1534  Prot|               listen to your words, I waver; and am disposed to think
1535  Prot|         beasts, for they were utterly weak in comparison of them, and
1536  Prot|      swiftness, while he equipped the weaker with swiftness; some he
1537  Prot|           strength, and that which is weakly done, by weakness?~He assented.~
1538  Prot|             and power over others and wealth?’—they would agree to the
1539 Intro|            himself with his favourite weapon; that is to say, he makes
1540  Prot|               always in training, and wear short cloaks; for they imagine
1541  Prot|            And do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the
1542 Intro|           impression of the grave and weighty old man. His real defect
1543  Prot|             evil of which depends the well-being of your all,—about this
1544  Prot|             of them. And what sort of well-doing makes a man a good physician?
1545 Intro|            existence of the gods in a well-known fragment ascribed to him;
1546  Prot|             always in front, and they wheeled round and took their places
1547      | whenever
1548  Prot|              might not be the father. Wherefore I should much prefer conversing
1549      | whither
1550  Prot|            immediate pleasure differs widely from future pleasure and
1551  Prot|                will be most likely to win esteem, and not praise only,
1552  Prot|               defend them against the winter cold and able to resist
1553  Prot|           desiring your acquaintance, wished to become acquainted with
1554  Prot|         against his will, and he also wishes to imply to Pittacus that
1555 Intro|            the veil of irony is never withdrawn; and we are left in doubt
1556 Intro|              reclaims, Socrates slily withdraws Prodicus from the fray,
1557      | within
1558  Prot|           become bad, as another poet witnesses:—~‘The good are sometimes
1559 Intro|             only intended to test the wits of his adversary. He then
1560  Prot|             only or a grown-up man or woman, must be taught and punished,
1561  Prot|           Crete not only men but also women have a pride in their high
1562  Prot|            ill? There is nothing very wonderful in this; for, as I have
1563  Prot|               piece of bent or warped wood. At a later stage they send
1564  Prot|        carried off Hephaestus’ art of working by fire, and also the art
1565  Prot|          which is a charming piece of workmanship, and very finished, but
1566  Prot|               stealth into the common workshop of Athene and Hephaestus,
1567 Intro|            sometimes have foolish and worthless sons. Virtue, as we were
1568 Intro|            lightly suggested, and all woven together in a single design,
1569  Prot|            Prodicus was still in bed, wrapped up in sheepskins and bedclothes,
1570  Prot|            said: Protagoras, I have a wretched memory, and when any one
1571  Prot|            and just as in learning to write, the writing-master first
1572 Intro|              that Plato is a dramatic writer who throws his thoughts
1573 Intro|            other. But Plato, like all writers of fiction, aims only at
1574  Prot|             in learning to write, the writing-master first draws lines with a
1575  Prot|       beginning to understand what is written, as before he understood
1576  Prot|         praise them; and if they have wronged him and he is angry, he
1577 Intro|              the fame of this saying, wrote a poem which was designed
1578 Intro|               he is depicted to us in Xenophon’s Memorabilia. Like Socrates,
1579  Prot|               greatly surprised if he yielded to any living man in the
1580 Intro|            had risen—so fervid is his zeal. Socrates moderates his