Dialogue

 1 Repub|        times in the course of the discussion Thrasymachus had made an
 2 Repub|           the result of the whole discussion has been that I know nothing
 3 Repub|          I had made an end of the discussion; but the end, in truth,
 4 Repub|        contention and not of fair discussion. ~Yes, he replied, such
 5 Repub|        the course of the previous discussion someone who shall be nameless
 6 Repub|          the commencement of this discussion you thrust aside: Is such
 7 Repub|     anything like a philosophical discussion, if they could help, while
 8 Repub|       view of both of them if the discussion could have been confined
 9 Repub| accumulate, and at the end of the discussion they are found to have sustained
10 Repub|           me into such a hopeless discussion; but now hear the parable,
11 Repub|         certainly showed that the discussion would be long and difficult;
12 Repub|        caution which preceded the discussion of them? ~To what do you
13 Repub|          them on a level with the discussion which had preceded. And
14 Repub|   mentioned in the course of this discussion, and at many other times. ~