The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |           by my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that they almost
  2 Text |           I do not know and cannot tell the names of my accusers;
  3 Text |         you who have heard me, and tell your neighbours whether
  4 Text |           had been like other men: tell us, then, what is the cause
  5 Text |      joking, I declare that I will tell you the entire truth. Men
  6 Text |          the God of Delphi—he will tell you about my wisdom, if
  7 Text |         boldly asked the oracle to tell him whether—as I was saying,
  8 Text |   interrupt—he asked the oracle to tell him whether anyone was wiser
  9 Text |           dog I swear! —for I must tell you the truth—the result
 10 Text |           wiser and better. I will tell you the tale of my wanderings
 11 Text |            do not know, and cannot tell; but in order that they
 12 Text |   improvement of youth?~Yes, I do.~Tell the judges, then, who is
 13 Text |      before them. Speak, then, and tell the judges who their improver
 14 Text |      matter? Speak up, friend, and tell us who their improver is.~
 15 Text |           of whom we are speaking, tell me and the court, in somewhat
 16 Text |         improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given
 17 Text |           advise the state. I will tell you why. You have heard
 18 Text |          have died at once. I will tell you a tale of the courts,
 19 Text |        world has not heard, let me tell you that he is lying.~But
 20 Text |           answer to this. For if I tell you that to do as you say
 21 Text |            judges—I should like to tell you of a wonderful circumstance.
 22 Text |            of this silence? I will tell you. It is an intimation
 23 Text |         his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights


Charmides
    Part
 24 Intro|     building, and the like. It may tell us that we or other men
 25 Intro|           something, but can never tell us what we know.~Admitting
 26 Text |            was.~Then sit down, and tell us the whole story, which
 27 Text |            said Critias, and I can tell you that he is a philosopher
 28 Text |          said, Call Charmides, and tell him that I want him to come
 29 Text |        improve his mind: and I can tell you, Socrates, that Charmides
 30 Text |           Yes, I said.~Then let me tell you that he is the most
 31 Text |      therefore you must be able to tell what you feel about this.~
 32 Text |  temperance abiding in you or not, tell me, I said, what, in your
 33 Text |        have any meaning; and first tell me whether you would not
 34 Text |           and, like a brave youth, tell me—What is temperance?~After
 35 Text |          his own business? Can you tell me?~Indeed, I cannot; and
 36 Text |           please, if you will only tell me what you mean by them.
 37 Text |          but I wish that you would tell me whether a physician who
 38 Text |          pieces of advice. Shall I tell you, Socrates, why I say
 39 Text |            if they were alike. For tell me, he said, what result
 40 Text |          and I will do as you say.~Tell me, then, I said, what you
 41 Text |           have got myself. Shall I tell you the nature of the difficulty?~
 42 Text |          existence of it, will you tell me how such a science enables
 43 Text |           the ivory gate, I cannot tell. The dream is this: Let


Cratylus
    Part
 44 Intro|        prance. ‘Only one more God; tell me about my godfather Hermes.’
 45 Intro|           entreat my questioner to tell me his own opinion, he replies,
 46 Intro|         and when you know come and tell me. ‘I have thought, Socrates,
 47 Intro|            affinity of races, they tell us something about the association
 48 Intro|           they originated, who can tell? Nevertheless we can imagine
 49 Intro|        monuments, if it could only tell us the history of itself.~(
 50 Text |        Then every man’s name, as I tell him, is that which he is
 51 Text |           matter, if he would only tell, and could entirely convince
 52 Text |          chose to be intelligible. Tell me, Socrates, what this
 53 Text |            oracle means; or rather tell me, if you will be so good,
 54 Text |         and beg and entreat him to tell you what he has learnt from
 55 Text |       indeed; not I.~SOCRATES: But tell me, friend, did not Homer
 56 Text |             which, as philosophers tell us, is the way to have a
 57 Text |          the meaning of this word? Tell me if my view is right.~
 58 Text |           and rhetors. But can you tell me why men are called anthropoi?—
 59 Text |          is that?~SOCRATES: I will tell you my own opinion; but
 60 Text |           called from the verb ‘to tell’ (eirein), because she was
 61 Text |            is it?~SOCRATES: I will tell you; but I should like to
 62 Text |         know first whether you can tell me what is the meaning of
 63 Text |          cannot.~SOCRATES: Shall I tell you what I suspect to be
 64 Text |     earnestly beg my questioner to tell me his own honest opinion,
 65 Text |         travestied that you cannot tell the meaning, although there
 66 Text |          But I wish that you would tell me, Socrates, what sort
 67 Text |          fitness, so that I cannot tell whether his obscurity is
 68 Text |      obscurity is intended or not. Tell me now, Cratylus, here in
 69 Text |         your own? and if you have, tell me what your view is, and
 70 Text |         enough for me, if you will tell me whether the nonsense
 71 Text |    CRATYLUS: Quite true.~SOCRATES: Tell me, then, did the first
 72 Text |          like to ask your opinion: Tell me, whether there is or
 73 Text |          found the truth, come and tell me.~CRATYLUS: I will do


Critias
    Part
 74 Text |        given to foreigners. I will tell you the reason of this:


Crito
    Part
 75 Text |          who have come from Sunium tell me that they have left her
 76 Text |         think so?~SOCRATES: I will tell you. I am to die on the
 77 Text |            with you; but please to tell me, Socrates, whether you
 78 Text |           in which you are placed. Tell me then, whether I am right
 79 Text |            how widely they differ. Tell me, then, whether you agree
 80 Text |           you say?~CRITO: I cannot tell, Socrates, for I do not
 81 Text |          come and interrogate me: ‘Tell us, Socrates,’ they say; ‘
 82 Text |           and answering questions. Tell us,—What complaint have


Euthydemus
    Part
 83 Intro|         believe if Euthydemus will tell him how many teeth Dionysodorus
 84 Text |         must the principal one be; tell me, I beseech you, what
 85 Text |         his kingdom. And please to tell me whether you intend to
 86 Text |          the whole exhibition; but tell me one thing,—can you make
 87 Text |   Euthydemus is deceiving you. For tell me now, is not learning
 88 Text |         solemn sage is required to tell us this, which may be easily
 89 Text |             He again assented.~And tell me, I said, O tell me, what
 90 Text |             And tell me, I said, O tell me, what do possessions
 91 Text |          an exhortation to virtue.~Tell me, he said, Socrates and
 92 Text |        upon you! What can make you tell such a lie about me and
 93 Text |             that it is possible to tell a lie?~Yes, said Ctesippus;
 94 Text |           in telling a lie, do you tell the thing of which you speak
 95 Text |        which you speak or not?~You tell the thing of which you speak.~
 96 Text |           evil of you, since I can tell you that the good speak
 97 Text |            you, if, as you say, to tell a falsehood is impossible?~
 98 Text |          Euthydemus.~Neither did I tell you just now to refute me,
 99 Text |        Dionysodorus; for how can I tell you to do that which is
100 Text |       cannot refute your argument. Tell me if the words have any
101 Text |        that I am wise, answer as I tell you.~I suppose that I must
102 Text |         Socrates?~SOCRATES: I will tell you; the kingly art was
103 Text |         than having to learn.~Then tell me, he said, do you know
104 Text |   Dionysodorus, I cannot complain. Tell me, then, you two, do you
105 Text |        give you? he said.~Will you tell me how many teeth Euthydemus
106 Text |          has? and Euthydemus shall tell how many teeth you have.~
107 Text |        Ctesippus: you must further tell us this one thing, and then
108 Text |            speak the truth; if you tell us the number, and we count
109 Text |           what you are asking, you tell me to answer nevertheless,
110 Text |  Dionysodorus; then you may do it. Tell me now, both of you, for
111 Text |           I nor any other man; for tell me now, Ctesippus, if you
112 Text |      mistaken; please, however, to tell me how you can be silent
113 Text |        business of a good workman? tell me, in the first place,
114 Text |          something great, he said: Tell me, Socrates, have you an


Euthyphro
    Part
115 Intro|          and Euthyphro will gladly tell Socrates some more of them.
116 Text |           will think me mad when I tell you.~SOCRATES: Why, has
117 Text |         therefore, I adjure you to tell me the nature of piety and
118 Text |           know nothing about them? Tell me, for the love of Zeus,
119 Text |             as I was saying, I can tell you, if you would like to
120 Text |            dare say; and you shall tell me them at some other time
121 Text |   EUTHYPHRO: I remember.~SOCRATES: Tell me what is the nature of
122 Text |         impious.~EUTHYPHRO: I will tell you, if you like.~SOCRATES:
123 Text |        true or not I cannot as yet tell, although I make no doubt
124 Text |       certainly did not ask you to tell me what action is both pious
125 Text |          dear friend Euthyphro, do tell me, for my better instruction
126 Text |            SOCRATES: Well; and now tell me, is that which is carried
127 Text |         hide your treasure, but to tell me once more what holiness
128 Text |            not grudge your labour. Tell me, then—Is not that which
129 Text |         these things, You will not tell: for where there is fear
130 Text |            with this poet. Shall I tell you in what respect?~EUTHYPHRO:
131 Text |         like manner, I want you to tell me what part of justice
132 Text |    holiness, that I may be able to tell Meletus not to do me injustice,
133 Text |             Yes.~SOCRATES: And now tell me, my good friend, about
134 Text |         truth, Socrates.~SOCRATES: Tell me then, oh tell me—what
135 Text |         SOCRATES: Tell me then, oh tell me—what is that fair work
136 Text |            upon me. Please then to tell me, what is the nature of
137 Text |            however, that you would tell me what benefit accrues
138 Text |            mind to the utmost, and tell me the truth. For, if any
139 Text |            like Proteus, until you tell. If you had not certainly


The First Alcibiades
    Part
140 Text |           will make an effort, and tell you what I meant: My love,
141 Text |           choose death. And I will tell you the hope in which you
142 Text |          is what I am now going to tell you, sweet son of Cleinias
143 Text |        attainment of them? Can you tell me why?~SOCRATES: You want
144 Text |         acquirements; and you must tell me if I forget any of them:
145 Text |  gymnastics.~SOCRATES: And can you tell me on what grounds the master
146 Text |         the lyre, I wish you would tell me what this latter is;—
147 Text |            me ask you in return to tell me, first, what is that
148 Text |           time you must be able to tell.~ALCIBIADES: Indeed I cannot.~
149 Text |            good; and now please to tell me what is the excellence
150 Text |            was the more excellent, tell me, what name do you give
151 Text |    ALCIBIADES: But I really cannot tell you.~SOCRATES: But if you
152 Text |          am thinking, and I cannot tell.~SOCRATES: But you surely
153 Text |         does this happen? Will you tell me how? For there may be
154 Text |            is he? I wish you would tell me, that I may go and learn
155 Text |           forswear, that I am not; tell me, then, who this instructor
156 Text |             Very good; and can you tell me how long it is since
157 Text |        must again ask, of whom? Do tell me.~ALCIBIADES: Of the many.~
158 Text |         suppose that I ask and you tell me the letters which make
159 Text |         the reason why, or shall I tell you?~ALCIBIADES: Tell me.~
160 Text |            I tell you?~ALCIBIADES: Tell me.~SOCRATES: The reason
161 Text |        required, Socrates,—can you tell me?~SOCRATES: Yes, I can;
162 Text |          Come, now, I beseech you, tell me with whom you are conversing? —
163 Text |         Socrates?~SOCRATES: I will tell you what I suspect to be


Gorgias
    Part
164 Intro|     greatest of human things.’ But tell me, Gorgias, what are the
165 Intro|            you mean by the better? Tell me that, and please to be
166 Intro|        harmony, which, as the wise tell us, is the bond of heaven
167 Intro|           In proof of which I will tell you a tale:—~Under the rule
168 Intro|         long sleep,’ we can hardly tell what would have been his
169 Text |      understand, and will ask him: Tell me, Gorgias, is our friend
170 Text |         arts which also use words, tell me what is that quality
171 Text |         Socrates?~SOCRATES: I will tell you: I am very well aware
172 Text |         you like.~SOCRATES: Let me tell you then, Gorgias, what
173 Text |          practises I really cannot tell:—from what he was just now
174 Text |        fine thing? But I shall not tell him whether rhetoric is
175 Text |         answer both of them. And I tell you, Polus, that rhetoricians
176 Text |        this.~SOCRATES: But can you tell me why you disapprove of
177 Text |       agree?~POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: Tell me, then, when do you say
178 Text |         him.~POLUS: And cannot you tell at once, and without having
179 Text |            from repenting: shall I tell you how he showed his remorse?
180 Text |         can have to say.~SOCRATES: Tell me, then, and you will know,
181 Text |             Please to reflect, and tell me your opinion.~POLUS:
182 Text |    previous discussion.~CALLICLES: Tell me, Chaerephon, is Socrates
183 Text |           By the gods, and I will. Tell me, Socrates, are you in
184 Text |         Socrates?~SOCRATES: I will tell you; I think that I have
185 Text |            wise, but they will not tell me the truth, because they
186 Text |         you are my friend. Shall I tell you why I think so? I know
187 Text |          you are my friend, as you tell me yourself. And therefore
188 Text |      instruction. Once more, then, tell me what you and Pindar mean
189 Text |         please to begin again, and tell me who the better are, if
190 Text |       things against me, I am not:—tell me, then, whom you mean,
191 Text |       explaining nothing?—will you tell me whether you mean by the
192 Text |     SOCRATES: But why will you not tell me in what a man must be
193 Text |        good friend, that you would tell me, once for all, whom you
194 Text |          life may become manifest. Tell me, then:—you say, do you
195 Text |             SOCRATES: Well, I will tell you another image, which
196 Text |         shame: and first, will you tell me whether you include itching
197 Text |         good—I wish that you would tell me whether you agree with
198 Text |          now I wish that you would tell me whether you agree with
199 Text |             Yes.~SOCRATES: Can you tell me the pursuits which delight
200 Text |            am afraid that I cannot tell you of any such among the
201 Text |       distinguishing them,—can you tell me of any of these statesmen
202 Text |       friendship. And philosophers tell us, Callicles, that communion
203 Text |           be repeated once more. I tell you, Callicles, that to
204 Text |         sense.~SOCRATES: Think and tell me whether you would approve
205 Text |       despise the swimmers, I will tell you of another and greater
206 Text |            is aware that he cannot tell which of his fellow-passengers
207 Text |          questions of one another. Tell me, then, Callicles, how
208 Text |        stranger, slave or freeman? Tell me, Callicles, if a person
209 Text |             But what I am going to tell you now is not mere hearsay,
210 Text |        friendship, my good sir, do tell me whether there does not
211 Text |         and ought to do again, and tell me your entire mind.~CALLICLES:
212 Text |           am put to death. Shall I tell you why I anticipate this?~
213 Text |        objection, I should like to tell you a story.~CALLICLES:
214 Text |         What is to be done? I will tell you:—In the first place,


Ion
    Part
215 Text |          equally well about others—tell me the reason of this.~SOCRATES:
216 Text |           themselves say; for they tell us that they bring songs
217 Text |           I wish you would frankly tell me, Ion, what I am going
218 Text |        will repeat them.~SOCRATES: Tell me then, what Nestor says
219 Text |           did?~ION: Yes.~SOCRATES: Tell me, then, what I was intending
220 Text |        arts, I wish that you would tell me what are the passages


Laches
    Part
221 Intro|       courage is, if he could only tell.~Nicias is now appealed
222 Intro|        predict results, but cannot tell whether they are really
223 Intro|        only the courageous man can tell that.’ Laches draws the
224 Text |         and Laches, but we did not tell you at the time the reason
225 Text |           of a common duty. I will tell you, Nicias and Laches,
226 Text |            person whom they meant. Tell me, my boys, whether this
227 Text |     retreat from Delium, and I can tell you that if others had only
228 Text |          which they praise. Let me tell you the pleasure which I
229 Text |           story short, I will only tell you what happened to this
230 Text |           as Nicias asserts, but I tell you my experience; and,
231 Text |          about them, we too should tell them who our teachers were,
232 Text |          nor works, then he should tell them to look out for others;
233 Text |         Nicias, should each of you tell us who is the most skilful
234 Text |            learning to make pots.’ Tell us then, what qualities
235 Text |            do not claim. Make them tell you that, Lysimachus, and
236 Text |          we must surely be able to tell?~LACHES: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
237 Text |           of studies and pursuits. Tell me, if you can, what is
238 Text |             Laches, do you try and tell me in like manner, What
239 Text |         cannot get hold of her and tell her nature.~SOCRATES: But,
240 Text |           own opinion, if you will tell us what you think about
241 Text |             LACHES: Yes.~SOCRATES: Tell him then, Nicias, what you
242 Text |         health and disease: he can tell the sick man no more than
243 Text |          Very good.~SOCRATES: Then tell me, Nicias, or rather tell
244 Text |         tell me, Nicias, or rather tell us, for Laches and I are
245 Text |        hope, Nicias, that you will tell us whether these animals,
246 Text |        myself another. Let me then tell you my own opinion, and
247 Text |          is that?~SOCRATES: I will tell you. He and I have a notion


Laws
    Book
248 1    |   Lacedaemonian~Athenian Stranger. Tell me, Strangers, is a God
249 1    |      informed about them; will you tell me a little more explicitly
250 1    |          speaking of the same men; tell us, then, do you agree with
251 1    |      argument is a common concern. Tell me—were not first the syssitia,
252 1    |          to be found in your laws? Tell me what there is of this
253 1    |            Megillus. I was able to tell you, Stranger, many laws
254 1    |           But I believe that I can tell better than either of you
255 1    |        true sense men and freemen. Tell me whether you assent to
256 1    |             And first permit me to tell you how good and bad are
257 1    |           feast; and I want you to tell me what great good will
258 1    |           I shall be very happy to tell you what I think, especially
259 1    |          Athenian Stranger, let me tell you what perhaps you do
260 1    |         Athenian. Well, then, if I tell you what are my notions
261 2    |             You will wonder when I tell you: Long ago they appear
262 2    | innumerable others as well can you tell me who ought to be the victor?~
263 2    |       drawn from all this? Shall I tell you?~Cleinias. What?~Athenian.
264 2    |          the world in general. For tell me, my good friends, by
265 2    |        friends, by Zeus and Apollo tell me, if I were to ask these
266 2    |             if he ever ventures to tell a lie to the young for their
267 2    |         old to sing, and they will tell stories, illustrating the
268 2    |     eighteen years of age; we will tell them that fire must not
269 3    |     freedom, I wish that you would tell me at what, in your opinion,
270 3    |            they have less. Shall I tell you why?~Cleinias. By all
271 3    |         blamed?~Megillus. I cannot tell.~Athenian. And that is the
272 3    |         come in my way. For I will tell you what has happened to
273 4    |         and other parts of Hellas. Tell me, then, whence do you
274 4    |           give the city?~Cleinias. Tell us what you mean a little
275 4    |            Which of you will first tell me to which of these classes
276 4    |          Very true: and now let me tell you the effect which the
277 4    |         say and do, you can surely tell.”~Cleinias. Of course he
278 4    |            himself; neither can he tell whether there is more truth
279 5    |        arithmetic as to be able to tell what number is most likely
280 6    |         not serve the turn. I will tell you, then, what you and
281 6    |           to do, since you, as you tell me, with nine others, have
282 6    |      persist, let the women go and tell the guardians of the law,
283 7    |      instruction?~Athenian. I will tell you how:—Every animal that
284 7    |            means.~Athenian. Let me tell you once more—although you
285 7    |           a man would be afraid to tell, and yet I have a confidence
286 7    |    thinking thus. Will you hear me tell how great I deem the evil
287 7    |            suggest to them—he will tell them to whom, and when,
288 7    |  compunction for what I have said. Tell me, then, what you would
289 7    |         instance?~Athenian. I will tell you. There is a difficulty
290 7    |             And you want me now to tell them plainly in what they
291 7    |            hour all of us Hellenes tell lies, if I may use such
292 8    |           of war:—Granted; and now tell me, what is the other?~Athenian.
293 8    |        their youth upwards we will tell them, charming them, as
294 8    |       shall speak for himself, and tell you what is his opinion.~
295 9    |           men among you; hear them tell and yourself try to repeat
296 10   |             and the oldest of them tell of the origin of the heavens
297 10   |        known many of them, and can tell you, that no one who had
298 10   |        them.~Athenian. Well, then, tell me, Cleinias—for I must
299 10   |        themselves I conjure you to tell me—if they are to be propitiated,
300 10   |       against evil men; and I will tell dear Cleinias, why I am
301 11   |         person who sees him go and tell the wardens of the city,
302 11   |        place in the agora he shall tell the wardens of the agora,
303 11   |            in the country he shall tell the wardens of the country
304 11   |         believe the lawgivers, who tell us that these things are
305 11   |           guardians of the law and tell them of his father’s misfortune,
306 11   |          service?~Athenian. I will tell you, O my friend, for such
307 11   |           sorcerer arouses, and to tell them in the first place,
308 12   |            the laws of our fathers tell us; and they also say that
309 12   |     Stranger; but I wish you would tell me more clearly what you
310 12   |       which, as I was saying, will tell what is the aim of the state,
311 12   |           The physician is able to tell his single aim in life,
312 12   |          are asked are not able to tell. Can you, Megillus, and
313 12   |           the other wisdom. I will tell you how that occurs:—One
314 12   |    different, and do you in return tell me in what way they are
315 12   |            condition, if we cannot tell whether virtue is many,


Lysis
    Part
316 Intro|         have a friend already, can tell me, who am always longing
317 Intro|          bard;’ and subtle doctors tell us that ‘moist is the friend
318 Intro|           in wisdom,’ and yet only tell us half the truth, and in
319 Text |         And who is yours? I asked: tell me that, Hippothales.~At
320 Text |     Hippothales, and hesitating to tell Socrates the name; when,
321 Text |            to distinguish him.~But tell me whose son he is, I said.~
322 Text |          Ctesippus will be able to tell you, he said; for if, as
323 Text |            have to offer. Will you tell me by what words or actions
324 Text |            not hear: Do, Socrates, tell Menexenus what you have
325 Text |       telling me.~Suppose that you tell him yourself, Lysis, I replied;
326 Text |           answer. But first I must tell you that I am one who from
327 Text |           for you have experience: tell me then, when one loves
328 Text |             By heaven, and shall I tell you what I suspect? I will.
329 Text |           and the good, and I will tell you why I am inclined to
330 Text |            good.~But, oh! will you tell me, I said, whether if evil


Menexenus
    Part
331 Text |      Hellas. Time would fail me to tell of their defence of their
332 Text |           actors. And first I will tell how the Persians, lords
333 Text |         that they might be able to tell the king that no one had
334 Text |        nights would not suffice to tell of them. Let them not be
335 Text |           happened to them. I will tell you what I heard them say,
336 Text |          you must take care not to tell of me, and then at some


Meno
    Part
337 Intro|            Gorgias said. Will Meno tell him his own notion, which
338 Text |              Anytus.~MENO: Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue
339 Text |            at all of Meno, could I tell if he was fair, or the opposite
340 Text |         and therefore I cannot now tell what I thought of him at
341 Text |           or, if you would rather, tell me your own view; for I
342 Text |         never mind him, and do you tell me: By the gods, Meno, be
343 Text |             Meno, be generous, and tell me what you say that virtue
344 Text |            I desire to know, Meno; tell me what is the quality in
345 Text |           SOCRATES: What are they? tell me the names of them, as
346 Text |          names of them, as I would tell you the names of the other
347 Text |      SOCRATES: And if he had said, Tell me what they are?—you would
348 Text |           this is not what I want; tell me then, since you call
349 Text |        SOCRATES: And then you will tell me about virtue?~MENO: I
350 Text |         told me what I ask, I will tell you, Socrates.~SOCRATES:
351 Text |           fulfil your promise, and tell me what virtue is in the
352 Text |        have forgotten already, and tell me that virtue is the power
353 Text |          Why, did not I ask you to tell me the nature of virtue
354 Text |          Socrates?~SOCRATES: I can tell why you made a simile about
355 Text |          Why not?~SOCRATES: I will tell you why: I have heard from
356 Text |            MENO: I will.~SOCRATES: Tell me, boy, do you know that
357 Text |          twice two feet? count and tell me.~BOY: Four, Socrates.~
358 Text |          SOCRATES: And now try and tell me the length of the line
359 Text |       regular order. (To the Boy:) Tell me, boy, do you assert that
360 Text |            what you think. And now tell me, is not this a line of
361 Text |             Try and see if you can tell me how much it will be.~
362 Text |      SOCRATES: But from what line?—tell me exactly; and if you would
363 Text |           would have been ready to tell all the world again and
364 Text |          of eliciting his opinion. Tell me, boy, is not this a square
365 Text |              will reply: ‘I cannot tell you as yet; but I will offer
366 Text |       assume a hypothesis before I tell you whether this triangle
367 Text |           SOCRATES: I will try and tell you why, Meno. I do not
368 Text |       Sophists); I only ask you to tell him who there is in this
369 Text |             ANYTUS: Why do you not tell him yourself?~SOCRATES:
370 Text |           you, on your part, would tell me to whom among the Athenians
371 Text |           teachers?~MENO: I cannot tell you, Socrates; like the
372 Text |            wonder to you?~MENO: Do tell me.~SOCRATES: You would


Parmenides
    Part
373 Intro|            a favour of you. First, tell me your half-brother’s name,
374 Intro|           admiration of Socrates. ‘Tell me,’ said Parmenides, ‘do
375 Intro|            the meanest things. But tell me, is your meaning that
376 Text |             he said.~I want you to tell me the name of your half
377 Text |           accept your account. But tell me, Zeno, do you not further
378 Text |           mind towards philosophy; tell me now, was this your own
379 Text |        younger than they?~I cannot tell you.~You can at least tell
380 Text |         tell you.~You can at least tell me that others than the


Phaedo
    Part
381 Intro|            cultivating philosophy. Tell this to Evenus; and say
382 Text |          do, I wish that you would tell me what passed, as exactly
383 Text |           for him, you may as well tell me what I should say to
384 Text |          hymn in honour of Apollo.~Tell him, Cebes, he replied,
385 Text |            turned them into verse. Tell this to Evenus, Cebes, and
386 Text |           setting of the sun?~Then tell me, Socrates, why is suicide
387 Text |     telling me, and he wants me to tell you, that you are not to
388 Text |            soul’s immortality.~But tell me, Cebes, said Simmias,
389 Text |    sepulchres, near which, as they tell us, are seen certain ghostly
390 Text |         you mean, Socrates?~I will tell you, he said. The lovers
391 Text |          said Simmias; then I will tell you my difficulty, and Cebes
392 Text |         difficulty, and Cebes will tell you his. I feel myself, (
393 Text |            our position. Please to tell me then, Cebes, he said,
394 Text |            you?~Cebes said: I will tell you. My feeling is that
395 Text |            dead the soul survives. Tell me, I implore you, how did
396 Text |       harmony within her?~I cannot tell, replied Simmias; but I
397 Text |           have to say.~Then I will tell you, said Socrates. When
398 Text |         think so.~Well; but let me tell you something more. There
399 Text |           I imagined that he would tell me first whether the earth
400 Text |        said, in what I am about to tell you; but only what I have
401 Text |            I quite understand you.~Tell me, then, what is that of
402 Text |           the art of Glaucus would tell you; although I know not
403 Text |            under the heaven, I can tell you a charming tale, Simmias,
404 Text |          the time would fail me to tell.~Wherefore, Simmias, seeing


Phaedrus
    Part
405 Intro|        beyond the heavens, who can tell? There is an essence formless,
406 Intro|        rest.’ And lastly, he might tell how, after a time at no
407 Intro|         parties sometimes agree to tell lies’? Is not pleading ‘
408 Text |           it; but I beseech you to tell me, Socrates, do you believe
409 Text |            such enquiries; shall I tell you why? I must first know
410 Text |       those who will be modest and tell no tales; nor to those who
411 Text |          the god of friendship, to tell me whether you think that
412 Text |           plane-tree, I will never tell you another; never let you
413 Text |         Proceed.~SOCRATES: Shall I tell you what I will do?~PHAEDRUS:
414 Text |           can deny.~And now let us tell what advantage or disadvantage
415 Text |       nature like his own, when we tell of the petty causes of lovers’
416 Text |          or none. And I might also tell you how the Sibyl and other
417 Text |           with the madman.~I might tell of many other noble deeds
418 Text |          us leave them. And do you tell me, instead, what are plaintiff
419 Text |    SOCRATES: Capital. But will you tell me whether I defined love
420 Text |            to one another, he will tell the reasons of his arrangement,
421 Text |      details; but I should like to tell you generally, as far as
422 Text |          or that way,’ and he will tell you why. The pupil must
423 Text |       nothing.~SOCRATES: Suppose I tell you something which somebody
424 Text |           that both parties should tell lies: the coward should
425 Text |           to him?~SOCRATES: Let us tell him that, before he appeared,
426 Text |          but I wish that you would tell me what you say that you
427 Text |            rhetoric enough. Go and tell Lysias that to the fountain
428 Text |    Certainly.~SOCRATES: Now go and tell this to your companion.~


Philebus
    Part
429 Intro|          ancient ground. He cannot tell the relation in which abstract
430 Intro|        which I swear that I cannot tell whether they are a pleasure
431 Intro|           cannot always distinctly tell;—deduced from the laws of
432 Text |            unlike. And so you must tell us what is the identical
433 Text |          hour of need.~PROTARCHUS: Tell us what that is.~SOCRATES:
434 Text |           in the arts.~PROTARCHUS: Tell us what it is.~SOCRATES:
435 Text |     rhythms and measures; and they tell us that the same principle
436 Text |         that if we are not able to tell the kinds of everything
437 Text |          so at this moment? I will tell you. You, Socrates, have
438 Text |       awake or in a dream I cannot tell; they were to the effect
439 Text |         You, I think, will have to tell me that.~SOCRATES: Rather
440 Text |          SOCRATES: Rather God will tell you, if there be any God
441 Text |           saying?~SOCRATES: I will tell you, and do you listen to
442 Text |          be asked.~SOCRATES: Well, tell me, is this question worth
443 Text |          PROTARCHUS: And would you tell me again, sweet Socrates,
444 Text |        them; that is what the wise tell us; for, say they, all things
445 Text |            their argument. Shall I tell you how I mean to escape
446 Text |        Protarchus. Answer now, and tell me whether you see, I will
447 Text |           to ask whether you would tell me that ship-building is
448 Text |   PROTARCHUS: Certainly.~SOCRATES: Tell me first;—should we be most
449 Text |         PROTARCHUS: How?~SOCRATES: Tell us, O beloved—shall we call
450 Text |          now you and Philebus must tell me whether anything is still
451 Text |  PROTARCHUS: And now, Socrates, we tell you that the truth of what


Protagoras
    Part
452 Text |          and he is a man, as I may tell you in your ear. But I thought
453 Text |           an argument. But shall I tell you a strange thing? I paid
454 Text |      suppose that you sit down and tell me what passed, and my attendant
455 Text |          and put questions to him. Tell me, Hippocrates, I said,
456 Text |        Hippocrates, O Hippocrates; tell me, what is he that you
457 Text |        some one were to say to us: Tell me, Socrates, and you Hippocrates,
458 Text |          do know, he replied.~Then tell me, what do you imagine
459 Text |          Indeed, he said, I cannot tell.~Then I proceeded to say:
460 Text |        their rulers are pleased to tell them. Now to run away, and
461 Text |           are assembled, Socrates, tell me about the young man of
462 Text |        same point, Protagoras, and tell you once more the purport
463 Text |          assertion. And I ought to tell you why I am of opinion
464 Text |          virtue. Now I want you to tell me truly whether virtue
465 Text |          and I wish that you would tell me whether I may be permitted
466 Text |          consequence to me. Let me tell you then what I will do
467 Text |   countrymen. And I should like to tell you, I said, what I imagine
468 Text |         and in the highest degree.~Tell me then; who are they who
469 Text |           by pleasure if not this?—tell us what you call such a
470 Text |       assented.~Well then, I said, tell us against what are the


The Republic
    Book
471 1    |           the Piraeus. For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures
472 1    |            you give of it? ~I will tell you, Socrates, he said,
473 1    |           relations, and they will tell you sadly of how many evils
474 1    |        convince others. For let me tell you, Socrates, that when
475 1    |       laughing to the sacrifices. ~Tell me then, O thou heir of
476 1    |            side, he said. ~Shall I tell you whose I believe the
477 1    |          professes to know and can tell what he knows. Will you
478 1    |        Proceed. ~I will; and first tell me, Do you admit that it
479 1    |           us accept his statement. Tell me, Thrasymachus, I said,
480 1    |            your precise sense, and tell me whether I am not right. ~
481 1    |           of replying to me, said, Tell me, Socrates, have you got
482 2    |            of injustice: They will tell you that the just man who
483 2    |      opinion of the gods, and will tell you of a shower of benefits
484 2    |            the highest authorities tell us. Knowing all this, Socrates,
485 2    |            to our inquiry? ~I will tell you, I replied; justice,
486 2    |       desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorized
487 2    |           only believe us we would tell them that quarrelling is
488 2    |      friend, let none of the poets tell us that ~"The gods, taking
489 2    |            not. ~Or perhaps he may tell a lie because he is afraid
490 3    |             or for a sailor not to tell the captain what is happening
491 3    |            misstatements when they tell us that wicked men are often
492 3    |        guess. ~At any rate you can tell that a song or ode has three
493 3    |           You are musical, and can tell me. ~The harmonies which
494 3    |       indeed, he replied, I cannot tell you. I only know that there
495 3    |          our counsels; and he will tell us what rhythms are expressive
496 3    |         not believe them when they tell us both; if he was the son
497 3    |            I think good? ~Will you tell me? ~I will, if I can. Let
498 3    |            which you were going to tell. ~True, I replied, but there
499 3    |            Gold and silver we will tell them that they have from
500 4    |           justice? Son of Ariston, tell me where. Now that our city