Dialogue

 1 Intro|       to us in a famous ancient tale: the tale will also enable
 2 Intro|        famous ancient tale: the tale will also enable us to distinguish
 3 Intro|   stories is to be found in the tale which I am about to narrate.~
 4 Intro|         here is the point of my tale. In the fulness of time,
 5 Intro|        perfect coherence of the tale, though he is very well
 6 Intro|        old to be amused ‘with a tale which a child would love
 7 Intro|      the improbabilities of the tale may be said to rest. These
 8 Intro|      compared with the didactic tale in which Protagoras describes
 9 Intro|       think to be an old wife’s tale, but you can think of nothing
10 Intro|    veiled form. Here, as in the tale of Er, the son of Armenius,
11 Intro|     solution of them. In such a tale, as in the Phaedrus, various
12 State|    amusement; there is a famous tale, of which a good portion
13 State|    STRANGER: Listen, then, to a tale which a child would love
14 State|       well be told now; for the tale is suited to throw light
15 State|    consistent the sequel of the tale is; after the return of
16 State|      why we have unearthed this tale, and then we shall be able
17 State| immortal. And this is the whole tale, of which the first part
18 State|         multitude by a pleasing tale and not by teaching?~YOUNG