Dialogue

 1 Repub|        wait. ~I turned round, and asked him where his master was. ~
 2 Repub|         received. ~That was why I asked you the question, I replied,
 3 Repub|      heaven! I replied; and if we asked him what due or proper thing
 4 Repub|         the error, Polemarchus? I asked. ~We assumed that he is
 5 Repub|         you, that whatever he was asked he would refuse to answer,
 6 Repub|           so to the person who is asked, ought he not to say what
 7 Repub|           that you are saying? he asked. ~I am only repeating what
 8 Repub|       repeat the question which I asked before, in order that our
 9 Repub|   understanding my meaning when I asked the question whether the
10 Repub|     short-sighted person had been asked by someone to read small
11 Repub|           are these two sorts? he asked. ~Suppose, I answered, that
12 Repub|         not the same. ~How so? he asked. ~Why, I said, you join
13 Repub|        soul. ~How can that be? he asked. ~Did you never observe,
14 Repub|          two of them. ~How so? he asked. ~In the first place, I
15 Repub|    purpose. ~What may that be? he asked. ~Education, I said, and
16 Repub|         among whom is it found? I asked. ~It is the knowledge of
17 Repub|        the preceding. ~How so? he asked. ~Temperance, I replied,
18 Repub|          of necessity. ~If we are asked to determine which of these
19 Repub|        different. ~How can we? he asked. ~I replied as follows:
20 Repub|         assent, as if he had been asked a question? ~Very true. ~
21 Repub|         they do. Then we shall be asked, "Whether the tasks assigned
22 Repub|           question to answer when asked suddenly; and I shall and
23 Repub|         punning riddles which are asked at feasts or the children'
24 Repub|          is the next question? he asked. ~Surely, I said, the one
25 Repub|         And how am I to do so? he asked. ~Why, I said, we know that
26 Repub|     upward. ~What do you mean? he asked. ~You, I replied, have in
27 Repub|         say six or four years? he asked. ~Say five years, I replied;
28 Repub|       worst the most miserable. I asked you what were the four forms
29 Repub| conditions? ~What do you mean? he asked. ~Beginning with the State,
30 Repub|         What is most required? he asked. ~That we should take counsel
31 Repub|           when one of the spirits asked another, "Where is Ardiaeus