(...) Euthydemus
     Part
 501 Text |               hope that you the enemy may slay.~‘Whom one knows, he
 502 Text |       unambiguous, but in combination may imply either that the letters
 503 Text |          which propositions and terms may be ambiguous.’~Yes, I do.~
 504 Text |                but you, my sweet man, may perhaps imagine that they
 505 Text |         nothing—you are doing so.~And may there not be a silence of
 506 Text |               desperate twist that he may get away, I said: No, Dionysodorus,
 507 Text |            there is a danger that men may undervalue an art which
 508 Text |               of others. And though I may appear ridiculous in venturing
 509 Text |          advise you, I think that you may as well hear what was said
 510 Text |             ambition of theirs— which may be forgiven; for every man


Euthyphro
     Part
 511 Intro|            accused. An incident which may perhaps really have occurred
 512 Intro|              that this dislike of his may be the reason why he is
 513 Intro|       charging a father with murder,’ may be a single instance of
 514 Intro|             is not dear to them.’ But may there not be differences
 515 Intro|          quarrels. And therefore what may be dear to one god may not
 516 Intro|           what may be dear to one god may not be dear to another,
 517 Intro|          another, and the same action may be both pious and impious;
 518 Intro|               your father, Euthyphro, may be dear or pleasing to Zeus (
 519 Intro|              what is hated by one god may be liked by another? Waiving
 520 Intro|              to apprehend an argument may be compared to a similar
 521 Intro|              light of a duty, whoever may be the criminal.~Thus begins
 522 Intro|          other they are angry:’ which may be said to be the rule of
 523 Text |               of Pitthis. Perhaps you may remember his appearance;
 524 Text |             EUTHYPHRO: I hope that he may; but I rather fear, Socrates,
 525 Text |           much consequence. For a man may be thought wise; but the
 526 Text |             afraid that the Athenians may think me too talkative.
 527 Text |               court; but perhaps they may be in earnest, and then
 528 Text |               not afraid lest you too may be doing an impious thing
 529 Text |              or mother, or whoever he may be—that makes no difference;
 530 Text |               the impious, whoever he may be, ought not to go unpunished.
 531 Text |               am concerned.~SOCRATES: May not this be the reason,
 532 Text |             the poets say, and as you may see represented in the works
 533 Text |            have a standard to which I may look, and by which I may
 534 Text |              may look, and by which I may measure actions, whether
 535 Text |            chastising your father you may very likely be doing what
 536 Text |       unacceptable to Here, and there may be other gods who have similar
 537 Text |             granting that this action may be hateful to the gods,
 538 Text |       understanding me. What I mean I may explain by an illustration
 539 Text |               just; and whether there may not be justice where there
 540 Text |             piety or holiness, that I may be able to tell Meletus
 541 Text |               the case of horses, you may observe that when attended
 542 Text |               an expression which you may use, if you like.~SOCRATES:


The First Alcibiades
     Part
 543 Pre  |        obtained authority. A tendency may also be observed to blend
 544 Pre  |        evidence in their favour. They may have been supposed by him
 545 Pre  |           external credentials. There may be also a possibility that
 546 Pre  |            Aristotle was mistaken, or may have confused the master
 547 Pre  |             but Plato. And lastly, we may remark that one or two great
 548 Pre  |          Aristotelian (1) credentials may be fairly attributed to
 549 Pre  |              of ancient Greek authors may be summed up under two heads
 550 Pre  |             genuine or spurious. They may have been written in youth,
 551 Pre  |               works of some painters, may be partly or wholly the
 552 Pre  |       compositions of pupils; or they may have been the writings of
 553 Pre  |             singular by Aristotle, we may perhaps infer that he was
 554 Pre  |               thought of the dialogue may be detected in Xen. Mem.,
 555 Pre  |          argument. On the whole, more may be said in favour of the
 556 Pre  |             in the Phaedrus, and this may have suggested the subject,
 557 Pre  |               The motive of the piece may, perhaps, be found in that
 558 Pre  |               class to another. There may have been degrees of genuineness
 559 Pre  |            both of Socrates and Plato may have formed the basis of
 560 Pre  |  semi-Platonic writings; some of them may be of the same mixed character
 561 Pre  |               criticism of the reader may be partly spurious and partly
 562 Pre  |              and partly genuine; they may be altogether spurious;—
 563 Pre  |           Hippias and the Cleitophon, may be genuine. The nature and
 564 Pre  |        considerable change and growth may have taken place in his
 565 Intro|           informed who he is, that he may go and learn of him also.
 566 Intro|              enquired for himself? He may have, if he was ever aware
 567 Intro|             not too old to learn, and may still arrive at the truth,
 568 Intro|          Socrates, that by your aid I may become free, and from this
 569 Intro|               of his uncle, Pericles, may be noted; and the repetition
 570 Text |         SOCRATES: I dare say that you may be surprised to find, O
 571 Text |           this every one who has eyes may see to be true; in the second
 572 Text |             be willing to hear, and I may consider myself to be speaking
 573 Text |              better be careful, for I may very likely be as unwilling
 574 Text |            terms; but the world, as I may say, must be filled with
 575 Text |            you tell me how? For there may be a difference in the manner.~
 576 Text |             you would tell me, that I may go and learn of him—you
 577 Text |           perhaps, he does not exist; may I not have acquired the
 578 Text |            truly, that our discussion may not be in vain.~ALCIBIADES:
 579 Text |             instructions in that line may be justly praised.~ALCIBIADES:
 580 Text |              not.~SOCRATES: Then they may be expected to be good teachers
 581 Text |                Alcibiades, the result may be expressed in the language
 582 Text |        different? And if you like you may examine me as I have examined
 583 Text |              if you would rather, you may carry on the discussion
 584 Text |            you consider now whether I may not be right, for you were
 585 Text |               effects as follows:—You may call either of them evil
 586 Text |           Peparethians, that the just may be the evil?~ALCIBIADES:
 587 Text |               women would remark, you may still see the slaves’ cut
 588 Text |               limbs, in order that he may be as shapely as possible;
 589 Text |             be lord over him, that he may be accustomed to be a freeman
 590 Text |           nurture or education, or, I may say, about that of any other
 591 Text |         Lacedaemon? And therefore you may safely infer that the inhabitants
 592 Text |            manner in which both of us may be most improved. For what
 593 Text |            pilot.~SOCRATES: And, if I may recur to another old instance,
 594 Text |             discreet in order that we may be good men? I cannot make
 595 Text |              to you, the same persons may sometimes have it, and sometimes
 596 Text |             by the grace of God, if I may put any faith in my oracle,
 597 Text |             And first of all, that we may not peradventure be deceived
 598 Text |               seem not.~SOCRATES: But may we say that the union of
 599 Text |        individual existence, and this may, perhaps, be sufficient;
 600 Text |         surely there is nothing which may be called more properly
 601 Text |            nothing.~SOCRATES: Then we may truly conceive that you
 602 Text |     acknowledging just now that a man may know what belongs to him
 603 Text |              art.~ALCIBIADES: So much may be supposed.~SOCRATES: And
 604 Text |             power of the state, which may be too much for both of


Gorgias
     Part
 605 Intro|               other great artists. We may hardly admit that the moral
 606 Intro|              all the dialogues.~There may be some advantage in drawing
 607 Intro|               of this is limited, and may be easily exaggerated. We
 608 Intro|             be easily exaggerated. We may give Plato too much system,
 609 Intro|             finished works of art, we may find a reason for everything,
 610 Intro|               general, ideals as they may be more worthily called): (
 611 Intro|             than unpunished; to which may be added (3) a third Socratic
 612 Intro|               higher arguments. Plato may have felt that there would
 613 Intro|               Socrates of the Gorgias may be compared with the Socrates
 614 Intro|           Polus suggests that Gorgias may be tired, and desires to
 615 Intro|              result of the discussion may be summed up as follows:—~
 616 Intro|               classes: (1) arts which may be carried on in silence;
 617 Intro|               always true, but belief may be either true or false,—
 618 Intro|            but, like all good things, may be unlawfully used. Neither
 619 Intro|               fears that the argument may be tedious to the company.
 620 Intro|               he is inclined to think may arise out of a misapprehension
 621 Intro|              this, viz. that rhetoric may be abused, and that the
 622 Intro|              and that the rhetorician may act unjustly. How is the
 623 Intro|             in the first place, a man may know justice and not be
 624 Intro|        character; and secondly, a man may have a degree of justice,
 625 Intro|               creditable whole, which may be termed flattery, is the
 626 Intro|              has no generic name, but may also be described as having
 627 Intro|             mere experiences, as they may be termed, because they
 628 Intro|        sophistic of legislation. They may be summed up in an arithmetical
 629 Intro|               if they are unpunished, may be happy enough. He instances
 630 Intro|           numbers; Polus, if he will, may summon all the rich men
 631 Intro|          three evils from which a man may suffer, and which affect
 632 Intro|               any error into which he may have fallen, and which Callicles
 633 Intro|           fallen, and which Callicles may point out. But he would
 634 Intro|         Euripides says, ‘whether life may not be death, and death
 635 Intro|  self-contentment and self-indulgence may be represented respectively
 636 Intro|              I do not deny that there may be happiness even in that.’
 637 Intro|               as good as the brave or may be even better.~Callicles
 638 Intro|            anything, in order that he may get through the argument.
 639 Intro|             ears with impunity. For I may repeat once more, that to
 640 Intro|           than those of our own. They may have been cleverer constructors
 641 Intro|              the soul, like the body, may be treated in two ways—there
 642 Intro|             he described to Polus, he may be the physician who is
 643 Intro|               no saying what his fate may be. ‘And do you think that
 644 Intro|             my fellow-men is, that we may present our souls undefiled
 645 Intro|              dizzy brain, and any one may box you on the ear, and
 646 Intro|         character of his writings, we may compare him with himself,
 647 Intro|          other great teachers, and we may note in passing the objections
 648 Intro|          casting one eye upon him, we may cast another upon ourselves,
 649 Intro|           that an agent and a patient may be described by similar
 650 Intro|               life and action. And we may sometimes wish that we could
 651 Intro|            stoical paradox that a man may be happy on the rack, Plato
 652 Intro|      happiness of the greatest number may mean also the greatest pain
 653 Intro|              those of duty and right, may be pushed to unpleasant
 654 Intro|              errors to which the idea may have given rise, we need
 655 Intro|         victory of good in the world, may have supported the sufferers.
 656 Intro|             instead of improving men, may have just the opposite effect.~
 657 Intro|           aspect under which the mind may be considered, we cannot
 658 Intro|               rewards and punishments may be compared favourably with
 659 Intro|         according to the truth. Plato may be accused of representing
 660 Intro|      Theaetetus; and at the same time may be thought to be condemning
 661 Intro|           some other questions, which may be briefly considered:—~
 662 Intro|            poetry is akin to rhetoric may be compared with the analogous
 663 Intro|               character of Protagoras may be compared with that of
 664 Intro|           from another point of view, may be thought to stand in the
 665 Intro|              The form of the argument may be paradoxical; the substance
 666 Intro|               of jest and earnest, we may now return to the ideal
 667 Intro|             moral evil. The righteous may suffer or die, but they
 668 Intro|             of truth and right, which may at any time awaken and develop
 669 Intro|              terrible downfall, which may, perhaps, have been caused
 670 Intro|          disturbed; and then again we may hear a voice as of a parent
 671 Intro|            our good. The consequences may be inevitable, for they
 672 Intro|               be inevitable, for they may follow an invariable law,
 673 Intro|              invariable law, yet they may often be the very opposite
 674 Intro|             him, in which he who runs may read if he will exercise
 675 Intro|              than they are, that they may win the esteem or admiration
 676 Intro|         rectitude of his disposition, may be found to take up arms
 677 Intro|             playing for a stake which may be partly determined by
 678 Intro|            either now or then. For he may have the existing order
 679 Intro|              society against him, and may not be remembered by a distant
 680 Intro|         expectations. Such sentiments may be unjust, but they are
 681 Intro|              private conversation.~We may further observe that the
 682 Intro|              and another reapeth.’ We may imagine with Plato an ideal
 683 Intro|                The poet of the future may return to his greater calling
 684 Intro|           indeed, we hardly know what may not be effected for the
 685 Intro|              of religion, with truth, may still be possible. Neither
 686 Intro|           noble purposes to which art may be applied (Republic).~Modern
 687 Intro|              the rack the philosopher may be happy (compare Republic).
 688 Intro|             painful death? He himself may be ready to thank God that
 689 Intro|              the joys of another life may not have been present to
 690 Intro|           than he who works for hire. May not the service of God,
 691 Intro|           soul, yet the ideal of them may be present to us, and the
 692 Intro|        example to us, and their lives may shed a light on many dark
 693 Intro|          state of existence. To these may be added, (1) the myth,
 694 Intro|           recantation of it. To these may be added (6) the tale of
 695 Intro|           into realities. These myths may be compared with the Pilgrim’
 696 Intro|      mediaeval. They are akin to what may be termed the underground
 697 Intro|          mythology. The moral of them may be summed up in a word or
 698 Intro|            passage—especially of what may be called the theme or proem (
 699 Intro|               in the same sentence he may employ both modes of speech
 700 Intro|         meaning to the reader. A poem may be contained in a word or
 701 Intro|               in a word or two, which may call up not one but many
 702 Text |             professes and teaches; he may, as you (Chaerephon) suggest,
 703 Text |             much only just now; and I may add, that many years have
 704 Text |             you like, Chaerephon, you may make trial of me too, for
 705 Text |             many other arts, the work may proceed in silence; and
 706 Text |               order that the argument may proceed in such a manner
 707 Text |              saying that the argument may proceed consecutively, and
 708 Text |            consecutively, and that we may not get the habit of anticipating
 709 Text |             in your own way, whatever may be your hypothesis.~GORGIAS:
 710 Text |             judgment is right, as you may ascertain in this way:—
 711 Text |               we proceed the argument may run on to a great length.
 712 Text |            should consider whether we may not be detaining some part
 713 Text |           better pleased.~SOCRATES: I may truly say, Callicles, that
 714 Text |            though I dare say that you may be right, and I may have
 715 Text |               you may be right, and I may have misunderstood your
 716 Text |          SOCRATES: And he who is just may be supposed to do what is
 717 Text |         stumble, a younger generation may be at hand to set us on
 718 Text |              any error into which you may think that I have fallen-upon
 719 Text |              What! do you mean that I may not use as many words as
 720 Text |           stay and listen to you, and may not go away? I say rather,
 721 Text |              That is my view, but you may be of another mind.~POLUS:
 722 Text |              am afraid that the truth may seem discourteous; and I
 723 Text |               which is cookery, which may seem to be an art, but,
 724 Text |          answering to them. And Polus may ask, if he likes, for he
 725 Text |             Polus shall refute me. We may assume the existence of
 726 Text |             SOCRATES: Which condition may not be really good, but
 727 Text |             the soul: in either there may be that which gives the
 728 Text |             no single name, but which may be described as having two
 729 Text |             cookery is to the body. I may have been inconsistent in
 730 Text |            length. But I think that I may be excused, because you
 731 Text |             is only fair: And now you may do what you please with
 732 Text |               words, good Polus, as I may say in your own peculiar
 733 Text |              willing to answer that I may know what you mean.~SOCRATES:
 734 Text |             right.~SOCRATES: Hence we may infer, that if any one,
 735 Text |             for his own interests, he may be said to do what seems
 736 Text |            right in saying that a man may do what seems good to him
 737 Text |              Socrates?~SOCRATES: That may very well be, inasmuch as
 738 Text |              that sort of way any one may have great power—he may
 739 Text |               may have great power—he may burn any house which he
 740 Text |        SOCRATES: About that you and I may be supposed to agree?~POLUS:
 741 Text |               all the Macedonians, he may be supposed to be the most
 742 Text |               truth is the aim; a man may often be sworn down by a
 743 Text |         disproof of my statement;—you may, if you will, summon Nicias
 744 Text |       Dionysus, come with him; or you may summon Aristocrates, the
 745 Text |      Archelaus unjust, and yet happy? May I assume this to be your
 746 Text |               address myself to them. May I ask then whether you will
 747 Text |              think not.~SOCRATES: And may not the same be said of
 748 Text |             And deformity or disgrace may be equally measured by the
 749 Text |                POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: May not their way of proceeding,
 750 Text |              the disease of injustice may not be rendered chronic
 751 Text |              children or country; but may be of use to any one who
 752 Text |             or any of his friends who may be doing wrong; he should
 753 Text |                that so the wrong-doer may suffer and be made whole;
 754 Text |              and their unjust actions may be made manifest, and that
 755 Text |              and that they themselves may be delivered from injustice,
 756 Text |             purposes, Polus, rhetoric may be useful, but is of small
 757 Text |             profound earnest; but you may well ask him.~CALLICLES:
 758 Text |              them, in order that they may not get the better of them;
 759 Text |              And this is true, as you may ascertain, if you will leave
 760 Text |           towards you, and my feeling may be compared with that of
 761 Text |              he being a man who, if I may use the expression, may
 762 Text |               may use the expression, may be boxed on the ears with
 763 Text |             am to practise, and how I may acquire it. And if you find
 764 Text |           same; or whether the better may be also the inferior and
 765 Text |           that if you agree with me I may fortify myself by the assent
 766 Text |        according to you, one wise man may often be superior to ten
 767 Text |          SOCRATES: Certainly:—any one may know that to be my meaning.~
 768 Text |               true rule of human life may become manifest. Tell me,
 769 Text |         indeed I think that Euripides may have been right in saying,~‘
 770 Text |               bodily affection:—a man may have the complaint in his
 771 Text |      CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES: And he may have strength and weakness
 772 Text |              understand you to say, I may assume that some pleasures
 773 Text |            that they are distinct, we may proceed to consider in what
 774 Text |             of the soul, and how this may be acquired, but not considering
 775 Text |            more.~SOCRATES: Then a man may delight a whole assembly,
 776 Text |              a former generation, who may be said to have improved
 777 Text |                SOCRATES: And the same may be said of the human body?~
 778 Text |           other pleasant thing, which may be really as bad for him
 779 Text |              state, acting so that he may have temperance and justice
 780 Text |             an outlaw to whom any one may do what he likes,—he may
 781 Text |              may do what he likes,—he may box my ears, which was a
 782 Text |           already often repeated, but may as well be repeated once
 783 Text |               and riveted by us, if I may use an expression which
 784 Text |             provided in order that we may do no injustice?~CALLICLES:
 785 Text |               rude and uneducated, he may be expected to fear any
 786 Text |              man begins to ask how he may become great and formidable,
 787 Text |             himself and his, whatever may be his character, then your
 788 Text |           that the noble and the good may possibly be something different
 789 Text |               saving and being saved:—May not he who is truly a man
 790 Text |              have to consider how you may become as like as possible
 791 Text |         perhaps you, sweet Callicles, may be of another mind. What
 792 Text |             them more thoroughly, you may be convinced for all that.
 793 Text |              your conversation? There may have been good deeds of
 794 Text |      intentionally, in order that you may understand me the better.
 795 Text |              purveyor of the articles may provide them either wholesale
 796 Text |            wholesale or retail, or he may be the maker of any of them,—
 797 Text |             notions of their art, and may very likely be filling and
 798 Text |              you are not careful they may assail you and my friend
 799 Text |               of theirs, although you may perhaps be accessories to
 800 Text |               the point is, how a man may become best himself, and
 801 Text |           justice, as you very likely may be brought by some miserable
 802 Text |            the Athenian State any man may suffer anything. And if
 803 Text |               there is no saying what may happen to me.~CALLICLES:
 804 Text |             which I dare say that you may be disposed to regard as
 805 Text |               the soul is: perhaps he may lay hands on the soul of
 806 Text |             to his fellows, that they may see what he suffers, and
 807 Text |              in that very class there may arise good men, and worthy
 808 Text |             in holiness and truth; he may have been a private man
 809 Text |               of insult.~Perhaps this may appear to you to be only
 810 Text |            advise about whatever else may seem good to us, for we


Ion
     Part
 811 Intro|             The theme of the Dialogue may possibly have been suggested
 812 Intro|          poets and their interpreters may be compared to a chain of
 813 Intro|              Reflections of this kind may have been passing before
 814 Intro|               this family resemblance may be traced in the Ion. The
 815 Intro|          nothing more is known of him may be adduced in confirmation
 816 Text |              art as a whole, the same may be said of them. Would you
 817 Text |              rings; and sometimes you may see a number of pieces of
 818 Text |           order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking
 819 Text |         Ithaca or in Troy or whatever may be the scene of the poem?~
 820 Text |             of the well-wrought wheel may not even seem to touch the
 821 Text |            Why, yes, Ion, because you may possibly have a knowledge
 822 Text |              of the rhapsode; and you may also have a knowledge of
 823 Text |      Apollodorus of Cyzicus?~ION: Who may he be?~SOCRATES: One who,
 824 Text |            general, in order that you may escape exhibiting your Homeric


Laches
     Part
 825 Intro|             thing, and mere endurance may be hurtful and injurious.
 826 Intro|               unintelligent endurance may often be more courageous
 827 Intro|                  No they do not. They may predict results, but cannot
 828 Intro|              the aged Lysimachus, who may be compared with Cephalus
 829 Intro|              other military question, may be settled by asking, ‘What
 830 Text |              see him. I think that we may as well confess what this
 831 Text |              not attended to them, we may remind you that you ought
 832 Text |               if they take pains they may, perhaps, become worthy
 833 Text |             studies or pursuits which may or may not be desirable
 834 Text |              or pursuits which may or may not be desirable for a young
 835 Text |               these young men, that I may continue your friend, as
 836 Text |            practice in which the lads may be advantageously instructed?~
 837 Text |               anything to add, then I may venture to give my opinion
 838 Text |             to a man; and this lesson may be the beginning of them.
 839 Text |              to mention, what by some may be thought to be a small
 840 Text |              I have given. But Laches may take a different view; and
 841 Text |              I do not deny that there may be something in such an
 842 Text |               prior question, which I may illustrate in this way:
 843 Text |         surprised if Nicias or Laches may have discovered or learned
 844 Text |              wealthier than I am, and may therefore have learnt of
 845 Text |           both, in the hope that they may be induced to take charge
 846 Text |            there is a danger that you may be trying the experiment,
 847 Text |              when he was a child, and may have met him among his fellow-wardsmen,
 848 Text |               and whatever subject he may start, he will be continually
 849 Text |               Laches what his feeling may be.~LACHES: I have but one
 850 Text |              a lover, and to others I may seem to be a hater of discourse;
 851 Text |              give you notice that you may teach and confute me as
 852 Text |           about which we are advising may be best and most easily
 853 Text |         advise how this gift of sight may be best and most easily
 854 Text |           what way the gift of virtue may be imparted to their sons
 855 Text |            SOCRATES: Then, Laches, we may presume that we know the
 856 Text |             whole of virtue; for that may be more than we can accomplish;
 857 Text |             enquire how the young men may attain this quality by the
 858 Text |               lungs, and begs that he may be allowed to eat or drink
 859 Text |              courage; which after all may, very likely, be endurance.~
 860 Text |          invite Nicias to join us? he may be better at the sport than
 861 Text |            you see our extremity, and may save us and also settle
 862 Text |             always better than death. May not death often be the better
 863 Text |           been imperfectly said, that may be hereafter corrected by
 864 Text |           refuses himself. Perhaps he may be more ready to listen
 865 Text |              then, regardless of what may be said of us, make the


Laws
     Book
 866 1    |             Being no longer young, we may often stop to rest beneath
 867 1    |            green meadows, in which we may repose and converse.~Athenian.
 868 1    |         superior or his own inferior, may we say that there is the
 869 1    |             over the inferior classes may be truly said to be better
 870 1    |               better than itself, and may be justly praised, where
 871 1    |         requires more discussion, and may be therefore left for the
 872 1    |               live in the same cities may unjustly conspire, and having
 873 1    |            the superiority in numbers may overcome and enslave the
 874 1    |               they prevail, the state may be truly called its own
 875 1    |      consideration;—in a family there may be several brothers, who
 876 1    |         possibly the majority of them may be unjust, and the just
 877 1    |               be unjust, and the just may be in a minority.~Cleinias.
 878 1    |              not now considering what may or may not be the proper
 879 1    |               considering what may or may not be the proper or customary
 880 1    |               the hour of danger, and may be truly called perfect
 881 1    |              yet in place and dignity may be said to be only fourth
 882 1    |              true and good, one of us may have to censure the laws
 883 1    |               any defect in your laws may communicate his observation
 884 1    |               True. And therefore you may be as free as you like in
 885 1    |             of the beasts. The charge may be fairly brought against
 886 1    |       lawgiver. Leaving the story, we may observe that any speculation
 887 1    |               have remarked that this may happen at your performances “
 888 1    |           this is our custom, and you may very likely have some other
 889 1    |      illustration of what I mean:—You may suppose a person to be praising
 890 1    |           ordered.~Athenian. Reflect; may not banqueters and banquets
 891 1    |            them wherever I went, as I may say, and never did I see
 892 1    |            fact of their existence—he may very likely be right. But
 893 1    |        materials. For drinking indeed may appear to be a slight matter,
 894 1    |           although the uneducated man may be sometimes very well educated
 895 1    |              look at the matter thus: May we not conceive each of
 896 1    |        convivial entertainment, which may seem, perhaps, to have been
 897 1    |           Perhaps, however, the theme may turn out not to be unworthy
 898 1    |           Very good.~Athenian. And we may conceive this to be true
 899 1    |           Athenian. And the same view may be taken of the pastime
 900 1    |            that proposition every one may safely agree.~Athenian. “
 901 2    |         considered attentively, or we may be entangled in error.~Cleinias.
 902 2    |            declining in years; and we may say that he who possesses
 903 2    |         beginning of life to the end, may be separated off; and, in
 904 2    |               their revels, that they may improve their education
 905 2    |          Athenian. Good, my friend; I may observe, however, in passing,
 906 2    |               and rhythm, so that you may speak of a melody or figure
 907 2    |              of.~Athenian. And yet he may do this in almost any state
 908 2    |               showing that a lawgiver may institute melodies which
 909 2    |              the natural melodies, he may confidently embody them
 910 2    |           prove your point.~Athenian. May we not confidently say that
 911 2    |           made that any one who likes may enter the lists, and that
 912 2    |            that the soul of the child may not be habituated to feel
 913 2    |           those who obey the law, but may rather follow the law and
 914 2    |            things, in order that they may learn, as they ought, to
 915 2    |        Cleinias; and I daresay that I may have expressed myself obscurely,
 916 2    |               so?~Athenian. How! Then may Heaven make us to be of
 917 2    |     Lacedaemonians of this age, and I may say, indeed, from the world
 918 2    |             True.~Athenian. And which may be supposed to be the truer
 919 2    |           teeth, which the legislator may take as a proof that he
 920 2    |             who are above thirty, and may be fifty, or from fifty
 921 2    |         sameness, so that the singers may always receive pleasure
 922 2    |        pleasure from their hymns, and may never weary of them?~Cleinias.
 923 2    |             of youth;—afterwards they may taste wine in moderation
 924 2    |           dinner at a public mess, he may invite not only the other
 925 2    |               old age; that in age we may renew our youth, and forget
 926 2    |              iron melted in the fire, may become softer and so more
 927 2    |              accompanied by pleasure, may not their works be said
 928 2    |              Athenian. Very true; and may we not say that in everything
 929 2    |              makes a mistake here, he may do himself the greatest
 930 2    |         dispositions, and the mistake may be very difficult to discern,
 931 2    |               fifty years of age, and may be over fifty, are not to
 932 2    |           choristers who are to sing, may be expected to be better
 933 2    |          notes of the song, that they may know the harmonies and rhythms,
 934 2    |            and character to sing; and may sing them, and have innocent
 935 2    |              all the three, that they may choose the best, and that
 936 2    |             those who think that they may be safely uttered; I only
 937 2    |       Athenian. Then half the subject may now be considered to have
 938 2    |              this scientific training may be called gymnastic.~Cleinias.
 939 2    |               half of the choral art, may be said to have been completely
 940 2    |               in this way all of them may be used. But if the State
 941 2    |               only, and whoever likes may drink whenever he likes,
 942 3    |             point of view in which he may behold the progress of states
 943 3    |          After the great destruction, may we not suppose that the
 944 3    |            almost entirely lost, as I may say, with the loss of the
 945 3    |             extremity, the human race may still grow and increase.
 946 3    |               does confirm it; and we may accept his witness to the
 947 3    |         sometimes arise.~Cleinias. We may.~Athenian. And were not
 948 3    |            Cleinias. Yes; at least we may suppose so.~Athenian. There
 949 3    |             Megillus and Cleinias, we may now begin again, unless
 950 3    |           Megillus. No.~Athenian. And may we not now further confirm
 951 3    |       Athenian. Whereas the physician may often be too happy if he
 952 3    |       Heraclidae—Achaeans by Dorians. May we not suppose that this
 953 3    |             mode of looking at things may turn out after all to be
 954 3    |             at any rate, things human—may come to pass in accordance
 955 3    |              the father prays that he may not obtain.~Megillus. When
 956 3    |             to his wish, for his wish may be at variance with his
 957 3    |             and greatest of harmonies may be truly said to be the
 958 3    |              Very true.~Athenian. And may we suppose this immoderate
 959 3    |            oath? This want of harmony may have had the appearance
 960 3    |             Lacedaemonians, Megillus, may easily know and may easily
 961 3    |         Megillus, may easily know and may easily say what ought to
 962 3    |            states from which the rest may be truly said to be derived;
 963 3    |              derived; and one of them may be called monarchy and the
 964 3    |              considered by us. Justly may you, O Lacedaemonians, be
 965 3    |              we who are lovers of law may make ourselves.~Megillus.
 966 3    |            that which is really last, may we not say, that he or the
 967 3    |          virtues of your ancestors, I may properly speak of the actions
 968 3    |              existed—in order that we may trace the growth of the
 969 3    |            how a proof of their value may be obtained. This discussion
 970 3    |              and, at the same time, I may have the use of the framework
 971 3    |        Megillus has no objection, you may be sure that I will do all
 972 4    |               name of the place; that may be determined by the accident
 973 4    |         fountain, or some local deity may give the sanction of a name
 974 4    |               hope that your citizens may be virtuous: had you been
 975 4    |        harbours are so good. Still we may be content. The sea is pleasant
 976 4    |              and silver; which, as we may safely affirm, has the most
 977 4    |             part of the citizens. You may learn the evil of such a
 978 4    |            the prayers of the Trojans may be accomplished yet more,
 979 4    |          Salamis and Artemisium—for I may as well put them both together—
 980 4    |             made them no better, if I may say so without offence about
 981 4    |              are to be the colonists? May any one come out of all
 982 4    |             badness of their own laws may have been the cause of the
 983 4    |           almost everything. And this may be said of the arts of the
 984 4    |       physician, and the general, and may seem to be well said; and
 985 4    |          there is another thing which may be said with equal truth
 986 4    |               from his lips. And this may be said of power in general:
 987 4    |              one point of view, there may be a difficulty for a city
 988 4    |              settlement of our state; may he hear and be propitious
 989 4    |               and the laws!~Cleinias. May he come!~Athenian. But what
 990 4    |            who is this God?~Athenian. May I still make use of fable
 991 4    |            extent, in the hope that I may be better able to answer
 992 4    |               is to be the next step? May we not suppose the colonists
 993 4    |               been wronged by his son may be reasonably expected to
 994 4    |               of this I think that he may give a sample for the instruction
 995 4    |             all the preliminaries, he may proceed to the work of legislation.
 996 4    |               of such prefaces? There may be a difficulty in including
 997 4    |             form, but I think that we may get some notion of them
 998 4    |               That is true.~Athenian. May we not fairly make answer
 999 4    |         doctors? For of doctors, as I may remind you, some have a
1000 4    |         marriage in a simple form; it may run as follows:—A man shall