Dialogue

 1 Intro|        But respectable midwives avoid this department of practice—
 2 Intro|     this humaner method, and to avoid captious and verbal criticisms.’~
 3 Intro|   should seek after the one and avoid the other, then the situation
 4 Intro|         has implanted in us. To avoid error as much as possible
 5 Intro|    desire or pain, to attain or avoid some end or consequence:
 6  Thea|     character to lose, and they avoid this department of their
 7  Thea|         by the card in order to avoid entanglements of words.
 8  Thea|       Socrates, will not easily avoid being drawn into an argument;
 9  Thea| THEODORUS: I will do my best to avoid that error.~SOCRATES: In
10  Thea|        is to attain the one and avoid the other—when that narrow,
11  Thea|         should pursue virtue or avoid vice, not merely in order
12  Thea|          THEAETETUS: But if you avoid these expressions, Socrates,
13  Thea|        he would have told us to avoid the use of these terms;
14  Thea|      SOCRATES: And, in order to avoid this, we suppose it to be