Dialogue

 1 Intro|      Atreus and Thyestes? ‘You mean about the golden lamb?’
 2 Intro|      the opposite of weaving—I mean carding. And the art of
 3 Intro|       other has reference to a mean or standard of what is meet.
 4 Intro|       the difference between a mean or measure and excess or
 5 Intro|      one another, but with the mean, without which there would
 6 Intro|      those which depend upon a mean or standard. Many accomplished
 7 Intro|    many kings, for by kings we mean all those who are possessed
 8 Intro|        virtue and art are in a mean, which is familiarized to
 9 Intro|        they must be fixed by a mean, which is also a standard
10 Intro|      of measuring or finding a mean between excess and defect,
11 Intro|       with the conception of a mean, the two arts of measuring.~
12 Intro|  preferred. If by ‘the few’ we mean ‘the good’ and by ‘the many,’ ‘
13 Intro|     the best.’ If, however, we mean by the rule of the few the
14 State|         THEODORUS: What do you mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean
15 State|    mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean that you rate them all at
16 State|       of the two halves do you mean?~STRANGER: Of course that
17 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean, Stranger?~STRANGER: I will
18 State| rearing of living creatures,—I mean, with animals in herds?~
19 State|     the breed? You know what I mean.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What?~STRANGER:
20 State|    SOCRATES: What?~STRANGER: I mean that horses and asses naturally
21 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?~STRANGER: How does man
22 State|       have paid me the debt,—I mean, that you have completed
23 State|      STRANGER: Do you think, I mean, that we have really fulfilled
24 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?~STRANGER: I mean to say
25 State|       do you mean?~STRANGER: I mean to say that merchants, husbandmen,
26 State|       we must do, if we do not mean to bring disgrace upon the
27 State|     SOCRATES: I suppose you to mean the token of the birth of
28 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?~STRANGER: I mean to say
29 State|       do you mean?~STRANGER: I mean to say that when we were
30 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?~STRANGER: I fear that I
31 State|     YOUNG SOCRATES: How do you mean?~STRANGER: I shall reply
32 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?~STRANGER: I mean the work
33 State|       do you mean?~STRANGER: I mean the work of the carder’s
34 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?~STRANGER: The arts which
35 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?~STRANGER: Do you not think
36 State|        by the principle of the mean, both in speech and action,
37 State|    comparison of them with the mean or ideal standard; would
38 State|  comparison of either with the mean.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
39 State|     with the production of the mean; for if this is not admitted,
40 State|       require this notion of a mean with a view to the demonstration
41 State|       to the attainment of the mean, seems to afford a grand
42 State|     they are measured with the mean, and the fit, and the opportune,
43 State|       in short, which denote a mean or standard removed from
44 State|    SOCRATES: What class do you mean?~STRANGER: A class which
45 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?~STRANGER: I am referring
46 State|   YOUNG SOCRATES: Whom can you mean?~STRANGER: They are a strange
47 State|       I do not recall what you mean at the moment.~STRANGER:
48 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?~STRANGER: Suppose that
49 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean? I cannot have understood
50 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?~STRANGER: The idea which
51 State|        of the highest truths—I mean to say, that they are wholly
52 State|    YOUNG SOCRATES: What do you mean?~STRANGER: I am speaking
53 State|      The latter.~STRANGER: You mean to say that the science
54 State|     YOUNG SOCRATES: How do you mean?~STRANGER: We exclaim How
55 State|        not understand what you mean.~STRANGER: The meaning is,
56 State|    that, and what bonds do you mean?~STRANGER: Rights of intermarriage,
57 State|     YOUNG SOCRATES: How do you mean?~STRANGER: Where one officer