Dialogue

 1 Intro|      qualities shine forth as the argument proceeds. Socrates takes
 2 Intro|           digressions to the main argument, because he finds them easier
 3 Intro|        the principal share in the argument is assigned, not to Socrates,
 4 Intro|        the invincible Socrates in argument (except in the first part
 5 Intro|         thesis by a cut-and-dried argument; nor does he imagine that
 6 Intro|           cannot be approached in argument, because they cannot argue (
 7 Intro|   opponent; and this is a mode of argument which disgusts men with
 8 Intro|          Socrates now resumes the argument. As he is very desirous
 9 Intro|       will Protagoras answer this argument? For he cannot say that
10 Intro|   digression?~‘Nay, Socrates, the argument is our servant, and not
11 Intro|           the courage to hear the argument out, he often becomes dissatisfied
12 Intro|       digressions better than the argument, because I understand them
13 Intro|           to be released from the argument, according to his agreement.
14 Intro|      admitted the justice of this argument any more than Heracleitus
15 Intro|          seeks to establish by an argument, which to us appears singular
16 Intro|     lively images under which the argument is described,—‘the flood
17 Intro|         which we live; and (as an argument to those who will only believe ‘
18  Thea|          about to speak of a high argument, in which all things are
19  Thea|         preserve; and the palmary argument of all, which I strongly
20  Thea|          all who take his line of argument would remark.~THEAETETUS:
21  Thea|        this tale on the preceding argument?~THEAETETUS: Indeed I do
22  Thea|    SOCRATES: Let us not leave the argument unfinished, then; for there
23  Thea|          of the other side of the argument, which is made by the champions
24  Thea|        brutes, which is a telling argument with the multitude, but
25  Thea|         was the real point of our argument, and with a view to this
26  Thea|           say so, if the previous argument is to be maintained.~THEAETETUS:
27  Thea|    victory, we walk away from the argument and crow.~THEAETETUS: How
28  Thea|         they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved even
29  Thea|          he will say, come to the argument in a more generous spirit;
30  Thea|          On these foundations the argument stands firm, which you,
31  Thea|          overthrow by an opposite argument, or if you like you may
32  Thea|       always behaving unfairly in argument. The unfairness of which
33  Thea|          made to tell against his argument; he also declared that we
34  Thea|        you and I must take up the argument, and in all seriousness,
35  Thea|         avoid being drawn into an argument; and when I said just now
36  Thea|         to try a fall with you in argument.~SOCRATES: There, Theodorus,
37  Thea|           man can escape from any argument which you may weave for
38  Thea|      reviewing or reinforcing the argument. But as he is not here,
39  Thea|       would you have us treat the argument? Shall we say that the opinions
40  Thea|         or shall we return to the argument? Do not let us abuse the
41  Thea|           not the servants of the argument; but the argument is our
42  Thea|          of the argument; but the argument is our servant, and must
43  Thea|           the courage to hear the argument out, and do not run away,
44  Thea|            and drown the original argument; to which, if you please,
45  Thea|       wish, let us go back to the argument.~SOCRATES: Had we not reached
46  Thea|           as for dwelling upon an argument or a question, and quietly
47  Thea|        Socrates; and now that the argument about the doctrine of Protagoras
48  Thea|           in the remainder of the argument.~THEAETETUS: Yes, if he
49  Thea|  THEODORUS: Invite Socrates to an argument—invite horsemen to the open
50  Thea|          be humble, and allow the argument to trample us under foot,
51  Thea|          in a great strait, every argument should be turned over and
52  Thea|       will say, according to that argument, the number eleven, which
53  Thea|   Socrates.~SOCRATES: And yet the argument will scarcely admit of both.
54  Thea| reproaches just, and does not the argument truly show that we are wrong
55  Thea|           which the author of the argument himself used.~THEAETETUS:
56  Thea|          not; if we may trust the argument.~SOCRATES: Well, but will
57  Thea|         SOCRATES: If, my boy, the argument, in speaking of adding the
58  Thea|           is knowledge? this fair argument will answer ‘Right opinion
59  Thea| difference, for this, as the said argument maintains, is adding the