Dialogue

 1 Intro|       the nature of Being. The friends of ideas (Soph.) are alluded
 2 Intro|   humourous delineation of the friends of ideas, who defend themselves
 3 Intro|   sense;—whether they are the ‘friends of ideas,’ who carry on
 4 Intro| suffering. Then we turn to the friends of ideas: to them we say, ‘
 5 Intro|         from a height’ on the ‘friends of the ideas’ as well as
 6  Soph|       you may complain of your friends and not of me.~THEAETETUS:
 7  Soph|        all of us, who are your friends, is and always will be to
 8  Soph|       likely.~STRANGER: ‘Then, friends,’ we shall reply to them, ‘
 9  Soph| STRANGER: Let us now go to the friends of ideas; of their opinions,
10  Soph|       as well as to our former friends.~THEAETETUS: What questions?~