Dialogue

 1 Intro|     retirement and defend his old master. He is too old to
 2 Intro|     his old master. He is too old to learn Socrates’ game
 3 Intro|      pure abstraction, of the old world and the new, were
 4 Intro|  knowledge?’ Theodorus is too old to answer questions, and
 5 Intro|       Theaetetus, I repeat my old question—“What is knowledge?”
 6 Intro|     Protagoras; but he is too old and stiff to try a fall
 7 Intro|      but only better than the old. And philosophers are not
 8 Intro|  beyond the truth. But if the old Protagoras could only pop
 9 Intro|    true. But many live in the old wives’ fable of appearances;
10 Intro|         Well, the doctrine is old, being derived from the
11 Intro|   true opinion’? But still an old difficulty recurs; we ask
12 Intro|      belonging neither to the old world of sense and imagination,
13 Intro|      materialistic sound; for old mythology was allied to
14 Intro|        The child of two years old sees the fire once and again,
15 Intro|      they may have shaken the old, they have not established
16 Intro|    new beginning is made, the old habit soon returns, the
17 Intro|      the sudden change of the old nature of man into a new
18 Intro|       the rest of nature. The old Pythagorean fancy that the
19  Thea|      and answer, and I am too old to learn; the young will
20  Thea|   office to those who are too old to bear.~THEAETETUS: I dare
21  Thea|       Theaetetus, I repeat my old question, ‘What is knowledge?’—
22  Thea|        Good people, young and old, you meet and harangue,
23  Thea|      am able to offer to your old friend; had he been living,
24  Thea| pugnacious than the giants of old, for I have met with no
25  Thea|   place, let us return to our old objection, and see whether
26  Thea|        that we are running my old friend too hard.~SOCRATES:
27  Thea|       only a repetition of an old wives’ fable. Whereas, the
28  Thea|     which, as you say, are as old as Homer, or even older
29  Thea|       on the same spot, grows old, or becomes black from being
30  Thea|      I met him when he was an old man, and I was a mere youth,
31  Thea|       we not come back to the old difficulty? For he who makes
32  Thea|   cannot think of any but our old one, Socrates.~SOCRATES:
33  Thea|      many wise men have grown old and have not found?~THEAETETUS: