The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |           which quite amazed me;—I mean when they said that you
  2 Text |            force of eloquence they mean the force of truth; for
  3 Text |          much or little—not that I mean to speak disparagingly of
  4 Text |           myself, What can the god mean? and what is the interpretation
  5 Text |            great. What then can he mean when he says that I am the
  6 Text |     present in court.~What, do you mean to say, Meletus, that they
  7 Text |           the young. I suppose you mean, as I infer from your indictment,
  8 Text |            plainer terms, what you mean! for I do not as yet understand
  9 Text |         different gods. Or, do you mean that I am an atheist simply,
 10 Text |            a teacher of atheism?~I mean the latter—that you are
 11 Text |          think so, Meletus? Do you mean that I do not believe in
 12 Text |            procured my acquittal—I mean, if I had thought fit to
 13 Text |           to do anything common or mean when in danger: nor do I
 14 Text |        harm, although they did not mean to do me any good; and for


Charmides
    Part
 15 Text |        have been such a fool as to mean this. Was he a fool who
 16 Text |          do.~What! I asked; do you mean to say that doing and making
 17 Text |         will only tell me what you mean by them. Please then to
 18 Text |           a little plainer. Do you mean that this doing or making,
 19 Text |        issue.~Well, he answered; I mean to say, that he who does
 20 Text |             then, I said, what you mean to affirm about wisdom.~
 21 Text |          to affirm about wisdom.~I mean to say that wisdom is the
 22 Text |           and in what cases do you mean?~In such cases as this:
 23 Text |            nature of its object: I mean to say, for example, that
 24 Text |     knowledge of self.~What do you mean? he said.~This is what I
 25 Text |            he said.~This is what I mean, I replied: I will admit
 26 Text |            does to us.~What do you mean? he said; I wish that you
 27 Text |        make me understand what you mean.~I dare say that what I
 28 Text |        that small question. Do you mean a knowledge of shoemaking?~
 29 Text |        happy; but I think that you mean to confine happiness to
 30 Text |           of some one else?~Yes, I mean him, but there are others


Cratylus
    Part
 31 Intro|           be imperfect? or does he mean to imply that a perfect
 32 Intro|           name, he supposes him to mean that he is not a true son
 33 Intro|           as the original one.~You mean to say, for instance, rejoins
 34 Intro|            of the soul, or (2) may mean ‘that by which the soul
 35 Intro|           with Hestia. What did he mean who gave the name Hestia? ‘
 36 Intro|          again, supposing alpha to mean ama or omou, Apollo becomes
 37 Intro|        troublesome, and appears to mean the subtle penetrating power
 38 Intro|       elevation of our hands would mean lightness—heaviness would
 39 Intro|       speaking of ourselves, but I mean to say that this was the
 40 Intro|           Socrates supposes him to mean that falsehood is impossible,
 41 Intro|      convention that the rho shall mean s and a convention may indicate
 42 Intro|        names knows things.’ Do you mean that the discovery of names
 43 Intro|        evil?~CLEINIAS: What do you mean?~ATHENIAN STRANGER: I mean
 44 Intro|         mean?~ATHENIAN STRANGER: I mean that he might watch them
 45 Intro|          the tales of mythology to mean only that men thought the
 46 Text |        horse or a horse a man, you mean to say that a man will be
 47 Text |            HERMOGENES: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: A very simple
 48 Text |        many other names which just mean ‘king.’ Again, there are
 49 Text |            HERMOGENES: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: Do you not know
 50 Text |            HERMOGENES: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean to say
 51 Text |           do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean to say that the word ‘man’
 52 Text |           next word?~SOCRATES: You mean soma (the body).~HERMOGENES:
 53 Text |             HERMOGENES: How do you mean?~SOCRATES: Heracleitus is
 54 Text |           the alpha is supposed to mean ‘together,’ so the meaning
 55 Text |      however, the name Theonoe may mean ‘she who knows divine things’ (
 56 Text |           he who uses the term may mean, so to speak, air-flux (
 57 Text |          the word kakia appears to mean kakos ienai, or going badly,
 58 Text |            HERMOGENES: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: This name appears
 59 Text |     Hermogenes, that people do not mean by the profitable the gainful
 60 Text |            HERMOGENES: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: I will try to
 61 Text |             HERMOGENES: How do you mean?~SOCRATES: For example,
 62 Text |       their fitness.~SOCRATES: You mean to say, how should I answer
 63 Text |          our hands to heaven would mean lightness and upwardness;
 64 Text |        arts? Let me explain what I mean: of painters, some are better
 65 Text |    painters execute their works, I mean their figures, better, and
 66 Text |         not.~CRATYLUS: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: Are you maintaining
 67 Text |         both sorts of imitation (I mean both pictures or words)
 68 Text |           and when I say ‘show,’ I mean bring before the sense of
 69 Text |             hard), you know what I mean.~CRATYLUS: Yes, my dear
 70 Text |            SOCRATES: I suppose you mean to say, Cratylus, that as
 71 Text |           That is precisely what I mean.~SOCRATES: But let us consider


Crito
    Part
 72 Text |          Crito, whether you really mean what you are saying. For


Euthydemus
    Part
 73 Intro|        does the word “non-plussed” mean?’ Socrates is informed,
 74 Text |        Crito; which of them do you mean?~CRITO: The one whom I mean
 75 Text |        mean?~CRITO: The one whom I mean was seated second from you
 76 Text |          is.~SOCRATES: He whom you mean, Crito, is Euthydemus; and
 77 Text |   repeating ourselves.~What do you mean?~I mean that there is something
 78 Text |     ourselves.~What do you mean?~I mean that there is something
 79 Text |         weak man.~A noble man or a mean man?~A mean man.~And a coward
 80 Text |         noble man or a mean man?~A mean man.~And a coward would
 81 Text |         what he is, which can only mean that you wish him to perish.
 82 Text |          said Dionysodorus, do you mean to say that any one speaks
 83 Text |     astonishment said: What do you mean, Dionysodorus? I have often
 84 Text |            acting—that is what you mean?~Yes, he replied.~And now,
 85 Text |         you used last: what do you mean by it, Dionysodorus? You
 86 Text |             Dionysodorus? You must mean that I cannot refute your
 87 Text |        sense.~No, he replied, they mean what you say. And now answer.~
 88 Text |           found.~CRITO: And do you mean, Socrates, that the youngster
 89 Text |            we were seeking? Do you mean to say that the same thing
 90 Text |          Dionysodorus.~What do you mean, I said; do you know nothing?~
 91 Text |             and I suppose that you mean with my soul?~Are you not
 92 Text |          non-existent.~What do you mean, Dionysodorus? I said. Is
 93 Text |             he said, and you would mean by animals living beings?~
 94 Text |         men themselves are utterly mean and ridiculous.’ Now censure
 95 Text |        other; but if they are in a mean between two good things
 96 Text |  participate in both, and are in a mean between them, then they


Euthyphro
    Part
 97 Text |        others:—of the principle, I mean, that the impious, whoever
 98 Text |        SOCRATES: I understand; you mean to say that I am not so
 99 Text |      things.~EUTHYPHRO: How do you mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean
100 Text |        mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean to say that the holy has
101 Text |    Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our
102 Text |           understanding me. What I mean I may explain by an illustration
103 Text |      illustration of what I do not mean. The poet (Stasinus) sings—~‘
104 Text |          sort of attention which I mean.~SOCRATES: Good: but I must
105 Text |          and what is piety? Do you mean that they are a sort of
106 Text |        service to the gods? Do you mean that we prefer requests


The First Alcibiades
    Part
107 Intro|         means, who is also bad? ‘I mean,’ replies Alcibiades, ‘the
108 Intro|       under what circumstances? ‘I mean to say, that he is able
109 Text |          do really wonder what you mean, and should greatly like
110 Text |            if the favour which you mean be not a troublesome one.~
111 Text |            SOCRATES: You do, then, mean, as I was saying, to come
112 Text |            Socrates.~SOCRATES: You mean about shipbuilding, for
113 Text |           the state.~SOCRATES: You mean, when they deliberate with
114 Text |            and when I say right, I mean according to rule.~ALCIBIADES:
115 Text |       ALCIBIADES: The Muses do you mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: Yes,
116 Text |     ALCIBIADES: I suppose that you mean music.~SOCRATES: Yes, that
117 Text |            said to you—What do you mean, Alcibiades, by the word ‘
118 Text |         manner.~ALCIBIADES: Do you mean by ‘how,’ Socrates, whether
119 Text |         pretty nearly all that you mean by speaking Greek.~ALCIBIADES:
120 Text |            ALCIBIADES: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: I am asking if
121 Text |     ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES: You mean in such a case as the following:—
122 Text |           There again; what do you mean?~SOCRATES: Ask yourself;
123 Text |             Once more, what do you mean?~SOCRATES: I suppose that
124 Text |           to your own case, do you mean to remain as you are, or
125 Text |            ALCIBIADES: What do you mean, Socrates; why do you say
126 Text |            ask?~ALCIBIADES: Do you mean to say that the contest
127 Text |        establish over them, if you mean to accomplish any noble
128 Text |       Certainly not.~SOCRATES: You mean that about them we should
129 Text |      ALCIBIADES: No.~SOCRATES: You mean that we should have recourse
130 Text |         speak of gentlemen, do you mean the wise or the unwise?~
131 Text |            the good?~ALCIBIADES: I mean by the good those who are
132 Text |         SOCRATES: But, perhaps you mean that they rule over flute-players,
133 Text |           other men?~ALCIBIADES: I mean that they rule over men
134 Text |     division.~SOCRATES: And do you mean by friendship agreement
135 Text |           faint not.~ALCIBIADES: I mean to say that there should
136 Text |             SOCRATES: What! do you mean to say that states are well
137 Text |            before; and what do you mean now by affirming that friendship
138 Text |         SOCRATES: Then what do you mean by this friendship or agreement
139 Text |            ALCIBIADES: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: I will explain;
140 Text |            ALCIBIADES: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: Consider; if
141 Text |            Socrates?~SOCRATES: You mean, that if you did not know
142 Text |            citizens virtue, if you mean to administer their affairs


Gorgias
    Part
143 Intro|          retaliate on him.~‘Do you mean to say that the rhetoricians
144 Intro|          of all what he and Pindar mean by natural justice. Do they
145 Intro|           better?’ But what do you mean by the better? Tell me that,
146 Intro|          wish to drive me away. ‘I mean the worthier, the wiser.’
147 Intro|          worthier, the wiser.’ You mean to say that one man of sense
148 Intro|        something else;—what DO you mean? ‘I mean men of political
149 Intro|         else;—what DO you mean? ‘I mean men of political ability,
150 Intro|           themselves? ‘What do you mean?’ I mean to say that every
151 Intro|  themselves? ‘What do you mean?’ I mean to say that every man is
152 Intro|          governor. ‘I see that you mean those dolts, the temperate.
153 Intro|            figure expresses what I mean. For true pleasure is a
154 Intro|       against him. Neither does he mean to say that Archelaus is
155 Intro|            the greatest number may mean also the greatest pain of
156 Intro|         falsehood. This is what we mean by the greatest improvement
157 Text |            CHAEREPHON: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean such a
158 Text |           do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean such a question as would
159 Text |   Chaerephon.~GORGIAS: What do you mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean
160 Text |        mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean that he has not exactly
161 Text |            believe that you really mean to call any of these arts
162 Text |            your drift?~SOCRATES: I mean to say, that the producers
163 Text |            physician.’ What do you mean? I shall say. Do you mean
164 Text |          mean? I shall say. Do you mean that your art produces the
165 Text |           art of rhetoric; and you mean to say, if I am not mistaken,
166 Text |            have the same effect? I mean to say—Does he who teaches
167 Text |          let us see what we really mean about rhetoric; for I do
168 Text |     GORGIAS: Yes.~SOCRATES: Do you mean that you will teach him
169 Text |             that is.~SOCRATES: You mean to say, with the ignorant;
170 Text |     medicine and the other arts; I mean to say, does he really know
171 Text |         first.~POLUS: What! do you mean that I may not use as many
172 Text |         rhetoric?~SOCRATES: Do you mean what sort of an art?~POLUS:
173 Text |           but the rhetoric which I mean is a part of a not very
174 Text |             Socrates? Say what you mean, and never mind me.~SOCRATES:
175 Text |         but explain to me what you mean by saying that rhetoric
176 Text |         good only in appearance? I mean to say, that there are many
177 Text |            you more clearly what I mean: The soul and body being
178 Text |         answer.~POLUS: What do you mean? do you think that rhetoric
179 Text |       states?~SOCRATES: Not if you mean to say that power is a good
180 Text |       POLUS: And that is what I do mean to say.~SOCRATES: Then,
181 Text |           that I may know what you mean.~SOCRATES: Do men appear
182 Text |         Justly or unjustly, do you mean?~POLUS: In either case is
183 Text |       tyrant?~SOCRATES: Not if you mean by tyranny what I mean.~
184 Text |         you mean by tyranny what I mean.~POLUS: I mean, as I said
185 Text |      tyranny what I mean.~POLUS: I mean, as I said before, the power
186 Text |       issue:—very good. And do you mean to say also that if he meets
187 Text |          truth?~POLUS: What do you mean? If a man is detected in
188 Text |           quality of the action? I mean, for example, that if a
189 Text |             Do I understand you to mean what I mean by the term ‘
190 Text |      understand you to mean what I mean by the term ‘benefited’?
191 Text |            the term ‘benefited’? I mean, that if he be justly punished
192 Text |          worst?~POLUS: What do you mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean
193 Text |        mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean to say, that is most disgraceful
194 Text |          POLUS: To the judges, you mean.~SOCRATES: —Who are to punish
195 Text |     varying in different persons—I mean to say, if every man’s feelings
196 Text |        tell me what you and Pindar mean by natural justice: Do you
197 Text |        natural justice: Do you not mean that the superior should
198 Text |           noble have more than the mean? Am I not right in my recollection?~
199 Text |         aver.~SOCRATES: And do you mean by the better the same as
200 Text |        already, that by superior I mean better: do you imagine me
201 Text |            tell me, then, whom you mean, by the better?~CALLICLES:
202 Text |           the better?~CALLICLES: I mean the more excellent.~SOCRATES:
203 Text |            you tell me whether you mean by the better and superior
204 Text |    CALLICLES: Most assuredly, I do mean the wiser.~SOCRATES: Then
205 Text |            what I believe that you mean (and you must not suppose
206 Text |     CALLICLES: Yes; that is what I mean, and that is what I conceive
207 Text |         you. In the first place, I mean by superiors not cobblers
208 Text |            already told you that I mean those who are wise and courageous
209 Text |             CALLICLES: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean that every
210 Text |           do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean that every man is his own
211 Text |             CALLICLES: What do you mean by his ‘ruling over himself’?~
212 Text |     CALLICLES: What innocence! you mean those fools,—the temperate?~
213 Text |            but of a cormorant; you mean that he is to be hungering
214 Text |     CALLICLES: Yes, that is what I mean; he is to have all his desires
215 Text |             CALLICLES: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: Take the case
216 Text |          you say that to hunger, I mean the mere state of hunger,
217 Text |        really do not know what you mean.~SOCRATES: Why, do you not
218 Text |            just now mentioning—you mean to say that those which
219 Text |         even now understand what I mean?~CALLICLES: No, I do not.~
220 Text |      CALLICLES: I suppose that you mean health and strength?~SOCRATES:
221 Text |         the will to obtain them? I mean to ask whether a man will
222 Text |            Athenian people, if you mean to be in their good graces,
223 Text |      brought by some miserable and mean person.~SOCRATES: Then I
224 Text |     believe, is a true tale, for I mean to speak the truth. Homer


Ion
    Part
225 Text |            Socrates.~SOCRATES: You mean to say that you would exclude
226 Text |          subject.~SOCRATES: Do you mean that a rhapsode will know
227 Text |        them.~SOCRATES: What do you mean? Do you mean to say that
228 Text |           What do you mean? Do you mean to say that the art of the
229 Text |       Athenians, and Ephesus is no mean city? But, indeed, Ion,


Laches
    Part
230 Intro|    knowledge. This is explained to mean knowledge of things terrible
231 Text |           do not understand what I mean. Then let me make my meaning
232 Text |       another.~LACHES: What do you mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I will
233 Text |          you now understand what I mean?~LACHES: Not over well.~
234 Text |         Not over well.~SOCRATES: I mean this: As I might ask what
235 Text |          and what principle do you mean?~SOCRATES: The principle
236 Text |            and he appears to me to mean that courage is a sort of
237 Text |       LACHES: What can he possibly mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: That
238 Text |         him then, Nicias, what you mean by this wisdom; for you
239 Text |      wisdom; for you surely do not mean the wisdom which plays the
240 Text |     knowledge or wisdom.~NICIAS: I mean to say, Laches, that courage
241 Text |   courageous?~NICIAS: What! do you mean to say that the soothsayer
242 Text |            in the argument: Do you mean to affirm that courage is


Laws
    Book
243 1    |           My good sir, what do you mean?)—~Cleinias. ... Moreover,
244 1    |           the state?~Cleinias. You mean that in each of them there
245 1    |            I suppose that you must mean foreign war, if I am to
246 1    |      matters.~Megillus. How do you mean?~Athenian. All those who
247 1    |          an illustration of what I mean:—You may suppose a person
248 1    |       wrong.~Cleinias. What do you mean, Stranger, by this remark?
249 1    |      established.~Athenian. If you mean to ask what great good accrues
250 1    |       intelligence and justice, is mean and illiberal, and is not
251 2    |            is a perfect man. Now I mean by education that training
252 2    |        clearly understand what you mean to say about them.~Athenian.
253 2    |          of old men, if you really mean that those who are above
254 2    |          is truthfully executed? I mean, for example, whether a
255 3    |        evil?~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. I mean that he
256 3    |           do you mean?~Athenian. I mean that he might watch them
257 3    |      observe about it?~Athenian. I mean to say that those who then
258 3    |       Cleinias. I suppose that you mean Epimenides.~Athenian. The
259 3    |      virtue?~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. Why, my good
260 3    |        badly?~Megillus. How do you mean; and why do you blame them?~
261 3    |         referring, and what do you mean?~Athenian. I was thinking
262 3    |          is young and foolish, you mean?~Athenian. Yes; or when
263 3    |      Megillus. I understand you to mean that a man should not desire
264 3    |           leader of all the rest—I mean wisdom and mind and opinion,
265 3    |        ours.~Megillus. What do you mean?~Athenian. Any one who looks
266 3    |           and does not observe the mean, everything is overthrown,
267 3    |          is the child of excess. I mean to say, my dear friends,
268 3    |           legislators who know the mean should take heed of the
269 3    |            of the state which is a mean between slavery and freedom.
270 3    |  temperance.~Megillus. What do you mean, Stranger?~Athenian. I suppose
271 3    |         Megillus. What laws do you mean?~Athenian. In the first
272 3    |          the right form: we took a mean in both cases, of despotism
273 3    |        other, and we saw that in a mean they attained their perfection;
274 4    |        will this city be? I do not mean to ask what is or will hereafter
275 4    |       Crete in that.~Athenian. You mean to say that there is more
276 4    |          the number.~Cleinias. You mean to say, I suppose, that
277 4    |       meaning?~Athenian. Not so; I mean rather to say that the change
278 4    |    speaking.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. I mean that you
279 4    |           do you mean?~Athenian. I mean that you might see how,
280 4    |  supposition.~Cleinias. How do you mean?~Athenian. Let us try to
281 4    |         Cleinias. Tell us what you mean a little more clearly. Do
282 4    |        little more clearly. Do you mean some form of democracy,
283 4    |             Cleinias. Which do you mean?~Athenian. Those which we
284 4    |          niggardly, the third is a mean; and you choose and approve
285 4    |          gentlest remedies. What I mean to say is, that besides
286 4    |      Athenian. I understand you to mean that we have made a sufficient
287 5    |       whatever she may like. But I mean to say that in acting thus
288 5    |           their opposites; but the mean states of all these habits
289 5    |      himself and never correcting; mean, what is expressed in the
290 5    |        which we all of us desire—I mean in having a greater amount
291 5    |          speak of riches. For they mean by “the rich” the few who
292 5    |            of which riches exist—I mean, soul and body, which without
293 6    |         has been described is in a mean between monarchy and democracy,
294 6    |          and democracy, and such a mean the state ought always to
295 6    |           of going to the right, I mean that they are to go to the
296 6    |        singing, and of imitation—I mean of rhapsodists, players
297 6    |            off well.~Cleinias. You mean, I suppose, their serious
298 6    |       insolent, and husbands to be mean and subservient to them
299 6    |     understand, Stranger, what you mean.~Athenian. I am not surprised,
300 6    |        account of their weakness—I mean the female sex—has been
301 6    |         law.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. The bride and
302 7    |      unborn.~Cleinias. What do you mean, my good sir? In the process
303 7    |             And, to express what I mean in a word, there is a good
304 7    |         savage servitude makes men mean and abject, and haters of
305 7    |         ought to pursue after this mean habit—he should not rush
306 7    |          evil to be?~Cleinias. You mean the evil of blaming antiquity
307 7    |         you referring?~Athenian. I mean that any young man, and
308 7    |           Muse—not however that we mean wholly to exclude pleasure,
309 7    |            doing so. But what do I mean? Some one may ask this very
310 7    |          which will be no cheap or mean employment, and in the duty
311 7    |        they will observe a sort of mean, not participating in the
312 7    |        That is quite true; and you mean to imply, that the road
313 7    |          what respect?~Cleinias. I mean to what pattern should he
314 7    |            well as in word what we mean; when word and action combine,
315 7    |     ignoble figures, imitating the mean; and of both these there
316 7    |           kind of ignorance do you mean?~Athenian. O my dear Cleinias,
317 7    |            Say, Stranger, what you mean.~Athenian. I will; or rather
318 7    |       truth.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. Perhaps what
319 8    | unfortunate.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. Must not they
320 8    |  difficulty.~Megillus. What do you mean?~Athenian. We are all aware
321 8    |        will.~Megillus. When do you mean?~Athenian. When any one
322 8    |    unequals.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. I mean that the
323 8    |           do you mean?~Athenian. I mean that the earth of necessity
324 9    |    disagree?~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. A thing not difficult
325 9    |          without ambiguity, what I mean by the just and unjust,
326 9    |          be justly said to be in a mean between the voluntary and
327 9    |           among mass of mankind: I mean where the power of wealth
328 9    |          is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives
329 10   |      wisdom.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. At Athens there
330 10   |         not in many; the notion, I mean, that the Gods exist, but
331 10   |     Cleinias. What doctrine do you mean?~Athenian. The wisest of
332 10   |         true.~Cleinias. How do you mean?~Athenian. In the first
333 10   |     Because those who use the term mean to say that nature is the
334 10   |            a very fair proposal? I mean to say that the argument
335 10   |         more places than one?” You mean to say, we shall rejoin,
336 10   |          places, you seem to me to mean those which move from one
337 10   |          us.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. I mean this:
338 10   |           do you mean?~Athenian. I mean this: when one thing changes
339 10   |         describe it?~Cleinias. You mean to ask whether we should
340 10   |      things?~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. I mean that we
341 10   |           do you mean?~Athenian. I mean that we know the essence,
342 10   |            I may illustrate what I mean in this way.~Cleinias. How?~
343 10   |        Cleinias. True.~Athenian. I mean, that when we are asked
344 10   |         move itself?~Cleinias. You mean to say that the essence
345 10   |     ourselves darkness at midday—I mean as if we were under the
346 10   |        only.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. Let us select
347 10   |        mind.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. In saying that
348 10   |          in the next place what we mean by this virtue which we
349 10   |             do I understand you to mean that they are careless because
350 10   |  difficulty.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. I mean that there
351 10   |           do you mean?~Athenian. I mean that there is greater difficulty
352 10   |       Cleinias. In what way do you mean?~Athenian. In a way which
353 11   |            was the enactment of no mean man:—”Take not up that which
354 11   |        addition to being thought a mean person and a despiser of
355 11   |      virtue.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian Stranger. Dear
356 11   |         die.~Cleinias. What do you mean, Stranger?~Athenian. O Cleinias,
357 11   |      things.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. I mean, my friend
358 11   |           do you mean?~Athenian. I mean, my friend that they were
359 11   |        them.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. I mean to say,
360 11   |           do you mean?~Athenian. I mean to say, that a case may
361 12   |           be convicted.~Theft is a mean, and robbery a shameless
362 12   |           me more clearly what you mean.~Athenian. O Cleinias, many
363 12   |    preserve.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~Athenian. Now is the time
364 12   |             Once more, what do you mean?~Athenian. The well–being
365 12   |       virtue.~Cleinias. How do you mean?~Athenian. I have no difficulty
366 12   |    difficulty in explaining what I mean. Let us distribute the subject
367 12   |             Once more, what do you mean?~Athenian. Ask me what is
368 12   |         and quite young children—I mean courage; for a courageous
369 12   |   discourse.~Cleinias. What do you mean, and what new thing is this?~


Lysis
    Part
370 Text |          what he is saying.~Do you mean, I said, that you disown
371 Text |            from doing.~What do you mean? I said. Do they want you
372 Text |            my teachers.~You do not mean to say that your teachers
373 Text |           friend of either.~Do you mean, I said, that if only one
374 Text |            is friendly to the like mean to intimate, if I rightly
375 Text |            of the good?~How do you mean? he said.~Why really, I
376 Text |           or ointment?~What do you mean? he said.~This is what I
377 Text |            he said.~This is what I mean: Suppose that I were to
378 Text |       often pretenders.~How do you mean? he asked.~Well, I said;
379 Text |         for the sake of his son? I mean, for instance, if he knew
380 Text |   friendships terminated, those, I mean, which are relatively dear


Menexenus
    Part
381 Text |            she? I suppose that you mean Aspasia.~SOCRATES: Yes,


Meno
    Part
382 Intro|           Plato certainly does not mean to intimate that the supernatural
383 Text |       which there is in the man. I mean to say that strength, as
384 Text |         virtue’?~MENO: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean as I might
385 Text |           do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean as I might say about anything;
386 Text |          speaking thus, you do not mean to say that the round is
387 Text |        MENO: Yes.~SOCRATES: Do you mean that they think the evils
388 Text |            And the goods which you mean are such as health and wealth
389 Text |       caught me.~MENO: What do you mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I can
390 Text |             I know, Meno, what you mean; but just see what a tiresome
391 Text |          Socrates; but what do you mean by saying that we do not
392 Text |           to be a physician, do we mean that we should be right
393 Text |         price?~ANYTUS: Whom do you mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: You
394 Text |         how to do men good, do you mean to say that these are the
395 Text |        been discussing. Now, do we mean to say that the good men
396 Text |            you reply that he was a mean man, and had not many friends
397 Text |           at all.~MENO: How do you mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean
398 Text |        mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean that good men are necessarily
399 Text |           wrong.~MENO: What do you mean by the word ‘right’?~SOCRATES:
400 Text |         not.~SOCRATES: What do you mean? Can he be wrong who has
401 Text |          what of that?~SOCRATES: I mean to say that they are not


Parmenides
    Part
402 Intro|        Anaxagoras, a citizen of no mean city in the history of philosophy,
403 Intro|         might be read again.’~‘You mean, Zeno,’ said Socrates, ‘
404 Intro|           themselves.’ ‘How do you mean?’ said Socrates. ‘I may
405 Intro|          same name twice over, you mean the same thing; and when
406 Intro|           expression, and seems to mean change in no time. Which
407 Intro|           negation of being:—do we mean by this to say that a thing,
408 Intro|         certain sense is? or do we mean absolutely to deny being
409 Intro|          the Megarians. He did not mean to say that Being or Substance
410 Text |     mention may provoke a smile?—I mean such things as hair, mud,
411 Text |           like to know whether you mean that there are certain ideas
412 Text |           many places at once. You mean to say, that if I were to
413 Text |       cannot be known.~What do you mean, Parmenides? said Socrates.~
414 Text |           not to them.~What do you mean? said Socrates.~I may illustrate
415 Text |           And will not knowledge—I mean absolute knowledge—answer
416 Text |      training for you.~What do you mean? he said.~I mean, for example,
417 Text |            do you mean? he said.~I mean, for example, that in the
418 Text |     breathe.~I am the one whom you mean, Parmenides, said Aristoteles;
419 Text |            older than.~What do you mean?~I mean this:—A thing does
420 Text |          than.~What do you mean?~I mean this:—A thing does not need
421 Text |         not right?~Quite right.~We mean to say, that being has not
422 Text |       parts of the one, if it is—I mean being and one—does either
423 Text |           like the one.~How do you mean?~I may take as an illustration
424 Text |      itself and others?~How do you mean?~If the one were greater
425 Text |  participation in time?~How do you mean?~If one is, being must be
426 Text |         but of a whole.~How do you mean?~If anything were a part
427 Text |          of that sort, does he not mean, whenever he uses such an
428 Text |         that a thing is not, do we mean that it is not in one way
429 Text |            is in another? or do we mean, absolutely, that what is
430 Text |          It cannot.~And did we not mean by becoming, and being destroyed,


Phaedo
    Part
431 Intro|          of ideas. Though I do not mean to say that he who contemplates
432 Intro|          indeed, we suppose him to mean, that he was now restored
433 Intro|     confusion. We certainly do not mean by the immortality of the
434 Intro|       another life. Why should the mean, the weak, the idiot, the
435 Intro|           must ask further what we mean by the word immortality.
436 Intro|           of divine perfection, we mean to say that God is just
437 Text |           for the evil.~But do you mean to take away your thoughts
438 Text |            hinderer or a helper? I mean to say, have sight and hearing
439 Text |       pleasure. And that is what I mean by saying that, in a sense,
440 Text |          out of their opposites? I mean such things as good and
441 Text |           a similar alternation; I mean to say, for example, that
442 Text |    generation of them.~What do you mean? he said.~A simple thing
443 Text |           matter in another way;—I mean, if you are still incredulous
444 Text |       knowledge or recollection? I mean to ask, Whether a person
445 Text |            conception?~What do you mean?~I mean what I may illustrate
446 Text |    conception?~What do you mean?~I mean what I may illustrate by
447 Text |           two arguments together—I mean this and the former one,
448 Text |         man, Socrates.~And what we mean by ‘seen’ and ‘not seen’
449 Text |          of his lusts,—the soul, I mean, accustomed to hate and
450 Text |         lives.~What natures do you mean, Socrates?~What I mean is
451 Text |         you mean, Socrates?~What I mean is that men who have followed
452 Text |            and follow.~What do you mean, Socrates?~I will tell you,
453 Text |          between them.~What do you mean? I said.~I mean, he replied,
454 Text |        What do you mean? I said.~I mean, he replied, as you might
455 Text |      extremes, but many are in the mean between them. Did you never
456 Text |         understand you, he said.~I mean to say that a harmony admits
457 Text |      nothing to add or subtract: I mean what you say that I mean.~
458 Text |           mean what you say that I mean.~Socrates paused awhile,
459 Text |      stoutly contend that what you mean is only that the greater
460 Text |          small, because he is in a mean between them, exceeding
461 Text |            oddness?—that is what I mean to ask—whether numbers such
462 Text |         some opposite?~What do you mean?~I mean, as I was just now
463 Text |      opposite?~What do you mean?~I mean, as I was just now saying,
464 Text |         what has been just said. I mean that if any one asks you ‘
465 Text |           be nameless.~What do you mean, Socrates? said Simmias.


Phaedrus
    Part
466 Intro|       speaking of the soul does he mean the human or the divine
467 Intro|         our youth. By mysticism we mean, not the extravagance of
468 Text |     company.~PHAEDRUS: What do you mean, my good Socrates? How can
469 Text |            merry.~SOCRATES: Do you mean that I am not in earnest?~
470 Text |           ass if you suppose me to mean that Lysias has altogether
471 Text |         good news. But what do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean to say
472 Text |           do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean to say that as I was about
473 Text |           in the two discourses; I mean, in my own and in that which
474 Text |           soar, and thus obtain no mean reward of love and madness.
475 Text |        them.~PHAEDRUS: What do you mean? I do not understand.~SOCRATES:
476 Text |        PHAEDRUS: What gifts do you mean? I never heard of any.~SOCRATES:
477 Text |       others?~PHAEDRUS: How do you mean?~SOCRATES: Let me put the
478 Text |      praise.~PHAEDRUS: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean to say
479 Text |           do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean to say that the composition
480 Text |    rhetoric.~SOCRATES: What do you mean? The remains of it, if there
481 Text |          rightly; that is what you mean— the niceties of the art?~
482 Text |        confirmation.~PHAEDRUS: You mean the excellent Theodorus.~
483 Text |           same word.~PHAEDRUS: You mean that there should be a summing
484 Text |    begotten?~PHAEDRUS: Whom do you mean, and what is his origin?~
485 Text |            his origin?~SOCRATES: I mean an intelligent word graven
486 Text |           be silent.~PHAEDRUS: You mean the living word of knowledge
487 Text |           of course that is what I mean. And now may I be allowed


Philebus
    Part
488 Intro|    property in all of them does he mean to indicate by the term ‘
489 Intro|            weapons; and by this, I mean a new classification of
490 Intro|            promote happiness is no mean preference of expediency
491 Intro|           with great subtlety. The mean or measure is now made the
492 Text |            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean, Socrates? Do you think
493 Text |            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: Why, I mean to
494 Text |         you mean?~SOCRATES: Why, I mean to say, that in self-defence
495 Text |             PROTARCHUS: How do you mean?~SOCRATES: Shall I, Protarchus,
496 Text |            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: The sciences
497 Text |         attack.~PROTARCHUS: Do you mean, when a person says that
498 Text |             We understand what you mean; but is there no charm by
499 Text |            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: Some god or divine
500 Text |             PROTARCHUS: How do you mean?~SOCRATES: Let there be