The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|           remarks that he will not speak as a rhetorician, that is
  2 Text |           so persuasively did they speak; and yet they have hardly
  3 Text |           to that: let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide
  4 Text |          little—not that I mean to speak disparagingly of any one
  5 Text |        this, and to them I appeal. Speak then, you who have heard
  6 Text |          For the word which I will speak is not mine. I will refer
  7 Text |           accusing me before them. Speak, then, and tell the judges
  8 Text |            interest in the matter? Speak up, friend, and tell us
  9 Text |            make a disturbance if I speak in my accustomed manner:~
 10 Text |         you why. You have heard me speak at sundry times and in divers
 11 Text |            of which I will not now speak. But, having regard to public
 12 Text |     prayers. But this is not so. I speak rather because I am convinced
 13 Text |       spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.


Charmides
    Part
 14 PreS |   altogether be overcome. Shall we speak of the soul and its qualities,
 15 Text |       enter his temple, not as men speak; but, when a worshipper


Cratylus
    Part
 16 Intro|            of children learning to speak, of barbarous nations in
 17 Intro|    ourselves learning to think and speak a new language, of the deaf
 18 Intro|           that the child learns to speak, as he learns to walk or
 19 Intro|            in the first efforts to speak and culminating in philosophy.
 20 Intro|            of children learning to speak, of barbarous nations, of
 21 Intro|    original process of learning to speak was the same in different
 22 Intro|            of his tribe to sing or speak, showing them by example
 23 Intro|          the other. Again, when we speak of the hereditary or paternity
 24 Intro|           In the child learning to speak we may note the inherent
 25 Intro|            Primitive men learnt to speak from one another, like a
 26 Intro|           of primitive man. We may speak of a latent instinct, of
 27 Intro|         uniform nature. We may now speak briefly of the faults of
 28 Text |           SOCRATES: And will a man speak correctly who speaks as
 29 Text |            for in giving names men speak.~HERMOGENES: That is true.~
 30 Text |           of Hephaestus?~SOCRATES: Speak you of the princely lord
 31 Text |           the term may mean, so to speak, air-flux (aetorroun), in
 32 Text |          that the poets, when they speak of the commencement of any
 33 Text |       works which we recognize and speak of as the beautiful?~HERMOGENES:
 34 Text |           hardly think that I need speak.~HERMOGENES: Which are they?~
 35 Text |            SOCRATES: And if when I speak you know my meaning, there
 36 Text |       SOCRATES: And can we rightly speak of a beauty which is always


Critias
    Part
 37 Intro|          to him, because he has to speak of men whom we know and
 38 Intro|           of which he was about to speak had occurred 9000 years
 39 Intro|      Atlantis. Critias proposes to speak of these rival powers first
 40 Intro|           and Asia.~And now I will speak to you of their adversaries,
 41 Text |           right. Wishing, then, to speak truly in future concerning
 42 Text |     argument to Critias, who is to speak next according to our agreement. (
 43 Text |        said that you were going to speak of high matters, and begged
 44 Text |        shall argue that to seem to speak well of the gods to men
 45 Text |          men is far easier than to speak well of men to men: for
 46 Text |       assistance to him who has to speak of it, and we know how ignorant


Crito
    Part
 47 Text |           this, Crito? Do the laws speak truly, or do they not?~CRITO:
 48 Text |          may say will be vain. Yet speak, if you have anything to


Euthydemus
    Part
 49 Intro|          to write them, but cannot speak them, although he too must
 50 Text |     themselves and teach others to speak and to compose speeches
 51 Text |        tell the thing of which you speak or not?~You tell the thing
 52 Text |        tell the thing of which you speak.~And he who tells, tells
 53 Text |            rhetoricians, when they speak in the assembly, do nothing?~
 54 Text |         And you say that gentlemen speak of things as they are?~Yes.~
 55 Text |            are?~Yes.~Then the good speak evil of evil things, if
 56 Text |            of evil things, if they speak of them as they are?~Yes,
 57 Text |          indeed, he said; and they speak evil of evil men. And if
 58 Text |         take care that they do not speak evil of you, since I can
 59 Text |         can tell you that the good speak evil of the evil.~And do
 60 Text |           of the evil.~And do they speak great things of the great,
 61 Text |           said Ctesippus; and they speak coldly of the insipid and
 62 Text |         assented.~But if he cannot speak falsely, may he not think
 63 Text |      enable me to know whether you speak truly.~What proof shall
 64 Text |            shall know that you are speak the truth; if you tell us
 65 Text |          that if it be possible to speak and say nothing—you are
 66 Text |  impossible, he said.~But when you speak of stones, wood, iron bars,
 67 Text |        wood, iron bars, do you not speak of the silent?~Not when
 68 Text |           good friend, do they all speak?~Yes; those which speak.~
 69 Text |            speak?~Yes; those which speak.~Nay, said Ctesippus, but
 70 Text |           all things are silent or speak?~Neither and both, said


Euthyphro
    Part
 71 Text |          know too well; for when I speak in the assembly about divine
 72 Text |          endeavour to explain: we, speak of carrying and we speak
 73 Text |           speak of carrying and we speak of being carried, of leading
 74 Text |         religion.~EUTHYPHRO: And I speak the truth, Socrates.~SOCRATES:
 75 Text |       nature of piety and impiety. Speak out then, my dear Euthyphro,


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 76 Text |         although no lover likes to speak with one who has no feeling
 77 Text |      having his permission, I will speak, for now you will listen
 78 Text |         now that you have begun to speak again, I am still more amazed.
 79 Text |           so.~SOCRATES: And as you speak of an excellence or art
 80 Text |          for example, I learned to speak Greek of them, and I cannot
 81 Text |        again, how inaccurately you speak, Alcibiades!~ALCIBIADES:
 82 Text |       Alcibiades! I hardly like to speak of your evil case, but as
 83 Text |            indeed, when I hear you speak, the truth of what you are
 84 Text |     justest, teaches him always to speak the truth; the third, or
 85 Text |             SOCRATES: And when you speak of gentlemen, do you mean
 86 Text |        SOCRATES: Those of whom you speak are ruling over men who
 87 Text |          good counsel of which you speak?~ALCIBIADES: The aim is
 88 Text |       other agreement of which you speak, and about what? what art


Gorgias
    Part
 89 Intro|          part of Socrates. He must speak, for philosophy will not
 90 Intro|            he is not too modest to speak out (of this he has already
 91 Intro|      character. But Socrates would speak to them, not of what will
 92 Intro|            must be made. They must speak to themselves; they must
 93 Intro|           any one man. Few persons speak freely from their own natures,
 94 Intro|            men. He has not only to speak of themes above the level
 95 Intro|           of ordinary life, but to speak of them in a deeper and
 96 Intro|           would not have wished to speak or act otherwise than he
 97 Intro|   different ways in which the laws speak to men (Laws). There also
 98 Text |         rhetoric makes men able to speak?~GORGIAS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 99 Text |   understand that about which they speak?~GORGIAS: Of course.~SOCRATES:
100 Text |         men able to understand and speak about the sick?~GORGIAS:
101 Text |            for you who are able to speak and to persuade the multitude.~
102 Text |            persuasion of which you speak, and which is given by rhetoric;
103 Text |           chance; but he who could speak would be chosen if he wished;
104 Text |         himself chosen, for he can speak more persuasively to the
105 Text |            for the rhetorician can speak against all men and upon
106 Text |            against you, and that I speak, not for the sake of discovering
107 Text |        yours, I hope that you will speak at equal length; but if
108 Text |             SOCRATES: And I should speak the truth; for I do not
109 Text |          question of you: When you speak of beautiful things, such
110 Text |      father the Scythians? (not to speak of numberless other examples).
111 Text |            who is not of an age to speak plainly, lisping at his
112 Text |         against them and refuse to speak of their pleasant vices,
113 Text |           with a view to the best, speak with a reference to some
114 Text |            refute me, for I do not speak from any knowledge of what
115 Text |            Pericles first began to speak in the assembly, the Athenians
116 Text |           Yes, if I seem to you to speak the truth.~CALLICLES: Granted
117 Text |         you are the man who cannot speak unless there is some one
118 Text |            flatterer of the State? Speak out, my good friend, freely
119 Text |           the dangers of which you speak, he will be a villain who
120 Text |            Now, seeing that when I speak my words are not uttered
121 Text |     perplex their minds, or that I speak evil of old men, and use
122 Text |           true tale, for I mean to speak the truth. Homer tells us (


Ion
    Part
123 Intro|       Socrates asks whether he can speak well about everything in
124 Text |           I believe myself able to speak about Homer better than
125 Text |        other poets? Does not Homer speak of the same themes which
126 Text |          argument? and does he not speak of human society and of
127 Text |            Hesiod and Archilochus, speak of the same things, although
128 Text |        good judge of all those who speak of the same things; and
129 Text |           that almost all poets do speak of the same things?~ION:
130 Text |           can fail to see that you speak of Homer without any art
131 Text |     knowledge. If you were able to speak of him by rules of art,
132 Text |            would have been able to speak of all other poets; for
133 Text |          am a common man, who only speak the truth. For consider
134 Text |          at a loss when he came to speak of Ion of Ephesus, and had
135 Text |           me in thinking that I do speak better and have more to
136 Text |            other man. But I do not speak equally well about others—
137 Text |         noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of
138 Text |           about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of
139 Text |            would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but
140 Text |      filled with tears, and when I speak of horrors, my hair stands
141 Text |           and if you could hear me speak of him I am sure you would
142 Text |          what part of Homer do you speak well?—not surely about every
143 Text |     Socrates, about which I do not speak well: of that I can assure
144 Text |      SOCRATES: Why, does not Homer speak in many passages about arts?
145 Text |      believe, you have no art, but speak all these beautiful words


Laches
    Part
146 Intro|  innovation; he can act but cannot speak, and is apt to lose his
147 Text |         which we were beginning to speak—the art of fighting in armour?
148 Text |            of the soul, if I am to speak of the universal nature
149 Text |            should say he of whom I speak; for the soothsayer ought


Laws
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150 1    |         many similar practices, to speak of which in detail would
151 1    |           some of us think that we speak with authority because we
152 1    |      intoxication I should like to speak in another way, which I
153 1    |         and when you have heard me speak, say boldly what is in your
154 1    |       defined. At present, when we speak in terms of praise or blame
155 2    |            rhythm, so that you may speak of a melody or figure having
156 2    |          is correct enough; but to speak metaphorically of a melody
157 2    |        allowable, although you can speak of the melodies or figures
158 2    |           that harmony of which we speak. And, because the mind of
159 2    |            like those of which you speak; in other places novelties
160 2    |            goods of which the many speak are not really good: first
161 2    |         poets and all the citizens speak in this strain, and I would
162 2    |            should make my citizens speak in a manner different from
163 2    |            spoken, or are about to speak; and the sum of them shall
164 2    |         Muses, and I have still to speak of the remaining chorus,
165 3    |            Amphion the lyre—not to speak of numberless other inventions
166 3    |         Athenian. Then, now let us speak of a third form of government,
167 3    |            at that time.~Megillus. Speak a little more clearly.~Athenian.
168 3    |          ancestors, I may properly speak of the actions of that day.
169 3    |            the first place, let us speak of the laws about music—
170 4    |            were by Minos (I do not speak from any desire to recall
171 4    |            the stronger.~Cleinias. Speak plainer.~Athenian. I will:—”
172 4    |         say to him—”O, legislator, speak; if you know what we ought
173 5    |         laws should follow; or, to speak more correctly, outline
174 5    |         recourse to prayers, so to speak, and hope that a slight
175 5    |           present instance, let us speak of the states which are
176 5    |            sense in which the many speak of riches. For they mean
177 6    |            may proceed in order to speak of the election of other
178 6    |    commanders direct them; (when I speak of going to the right, I
179 6    |            the country, we have to speak of the election of wardens
180 6    |        education, the law means to speak of those who have the care
181 6    |          And the reason is that we speak about them in a way which
182 6    |      states having many slaves who speak the same language, and the
183 6    | institution of which I am about to speak is not easily described
184 6    |         sense will even venture to speak of common tables in places
185 6    |      return:—After marriage let us speak of the birth of children,
186 7    |          less can you be silent. I speak somewhat darkly, but I shall
187 7    |          why was there any need to speak of the matter at all?~Athenian.
188 7    |            then, let us proceed to speak.~Cleinias. By all means.~
189 7    |        change, and the young never speak of their having the same
190 7    |            our age be too ready to speak about such great matters,
191 7    |          order of them.~Let us now speak of the manner of teaching
192 7    |      sufficiently explicit, let us speak, further of them and embody
193 7    |           which we shall hereafter speak. Hear, however, first of
194 7    |          teaching of music, let us speak in like manner about gymnastic.
195 7    |          spoken, and cannot easily speak without showing at the same
196 7    |             we will now proceed to speak of other movements of the
197 7    |      necessities of which the many speak, when they talk in this
198 7    |     knowledge as will enable us to speak rightly should be acquired
199 8    |          by law; and first, let us speak of running and swiftness.~
200 8    |           this law. Cleinias shall speak for himself, and tell you
201 9    |            a short prelude, we may speak to the criminal, whom some
202 9    |           quite intolerable—not to speak what I believe to be the
203 9    |           go free.~Having begun to speak of homicide, let us endeavour
204 9    |            passion: we have now to speak of voluntary crimes done
205 9    |             Athenian. Let us first speak, as far as we are able,
206 9    |           next in order we have to speak of deeds of violence, voluntary
207 9    |          rather the lord of all. I speak of mind, true and free,
208 9    |     matters into his own hands and speak distinctly. But when a state
209 10   |            punishment of those who speak or act insolently toward
210 10   |           will reply, “in that you speak truly; for some of us deny
211 10   |             refuses to admit. They speak of the Gods in prose as
212 10   |          cause of this argument; I speak of those who will not believe
213 10   |    Cleinias. I wish that you would speak plainer.~Athenian. The doctrine
214 10   |           Very true.” And when you speak of bodies moving in many
215 10   |            is concerned.~Cleinias. Speak plainer.~Athenian. I suppose
216 10   |        give name or definition, we speak of the same thing, calling “
217 10   |             Then we are right, and speak the most perfect and absolute
218 10   |         Then of one of them let us speak, and the same argument will
219 10   |            this zeal has led me to speak too vehemently; but if we
220 11   |            do to me. First, let us speak of treasure trove:—May I
221 11   |            all cases:—No one shall speak evil of another; and when
222 11   |         into another land, and not speak contrary to justice. If
223 12   |     otherwise shall be supposed to speak beside the point, and the
224 12   |          Now is the time for me to speak the truth in all earnestness.~
225 12   |        call virtue, and then again speak of as two, one part being
226 12   |             for in our opinion you speak most truly; but we should


Lysis
    Part
227 Text |            ridiculous? He can only speak of the wealth of Democrates,
228 Text |        authors of wisdom, and they speak of friends in no light or
229 Text |        must we not admit that they speak the truth?~We must.~They


Menexenus
    Part
230 Text |         choose some one who was to speak over the dead. For you know
231 Text |            has been called upon to speak at a moment’s notice, and
232 Text |           you think that you could speak yourself if there should
233 Text |           That I should be able to speak is no great wonder, Menexenus,
234 Text |          able to say if you had to speak?~SOCRATES: Of my own wit,
235 Text |         them back. Of these I will speak first, and praise their


Meno
    Part
236 Intro|            of which metaphysicians speak have hardly ever lasted
237 Text |          to say, I should not only speak the truth, but I should
238 Text |        still you, I am sure, would speak of a thing as ended or terminated—
239 Text |            SOCRATES: And you would speak of a surface and also of
240 Text |            Why, because you always speak in imperatives: like all
241 Text |            the figure of which you speak?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: But
242 Text |          that you are too ready to speak evil of men: and, if you
243 Text |            men should be taught to speak.~SOCRATES: Then do you not
244 Text |         the truth.~SOCRATES: I too speak rather in ignorance; I only


Parmenides
    Part
245 Intro|       becomes of the others? If we speak of them they must be, and
246 Intro|       acquainted with this last to speak with confidence about it.
247 Text |          you imagine; for what you speak of was an accident; there
248 Text |   tremendous business of which you speak, and I do not quite understand
249 Text |    especially at his age, can well speak of before a large audience;
250 Text |            so.~In this way—you may speak of being?~Yes.~And also
251 Text |        them?~Yes.~Well, and when I speak of being and one, I speak
252 Text |          speak of being and one, I speak of them both?~Certainly.~
253 Text |          both?~Certainly.~And if I speak of being and the other,
254 Text |          in any such case do I not speak of both?~Yes.~And must not
255 Text |            same thing of which you speak, whether you utter the name
256 Text |      repeating the word ‘other’ we speak of that nature to which
257 Text |            each.~True.~But when we speak of the part participating
258 Text |         from the others, we do not speak of a difference in the others,
259 Text |            not, then we should not speak the truth in saying that
260 Text |          the one is not. But if we speak the truth, clearly we must
261 Text |            since we affirm that we speak truly, we must also affirm
262 Text |     speaking of them.~True.~But to speak of the others implies difference—


Phaedo
    Part
263 Intro|           form of life.~7. When we speak of the immortality of the
264 Intro|        time, even religious people speak so little to one another.
265 Intro|     language of ideas only that we speak of them.~First of all there
266 Intro|           modern philosophers, who speak of eternity, not in the
267 Intro|       above all things to hear and speak of Socrates after his death.
268 Text |           delight to me, whether I speak myself or hear another speak
269 Text |       speak myself or hear another speak of him.~ECHECRATES: You
270 Text |         Philolaus, never heard him speak of this?~Yes, but his language
271 Text |          other bodily sense?—and I speak not of these alone, but
272 Text |           eyes and ears and, so to speak, of the whole body, these
273 Text |           the essence of which you speak. For there is nothing which
274 Text |           your only objection, but speak and ask anything which you
275 Text |           word which I am about to speak. That, however, may be left
276 Text |          true.~Simmias assented.~I speak as I do because I want you
277 Text |   objection to make, he had better speak out, and not keep silence,
278 Text |        Crito, and they of whom you speak are right in so acting,


Phaedrus
    Part
279 Intro|            speaking is to know and speak the truth; as a Spartan
280 Intro|         texts which may help us to speak and to think. The names
281 Intro|      Perhaps he would be afraid to speak of them;—the one vox populi,
282 Intro|          with their fellow-men, to speak heart to heart, to speak
283 Intro|           speak heart to heart, to speak and act only, and not to
284 Text |        will not let me off until I speak in some fashion or other;
285 Text |       therefore my best plan is to speak as I best can.~SOCRATES:
286 Text |       himself; I thought, though I speak under correction, that he
287 Text |            Who, for example, could speak on this thesis of yours
288 Text |          had me, and you must just speak ‘as you best can.’ Do not
289 Text |      myself, and he was wanting to speak, but he gave himself airs.’
290 Text |           that he shall. You shall speak the praises of the lover,
291 Text |           I believe you.~PHAEDRUS: Speak, and fear not.~SOCRATES:
292 Text |         But it would be tedious to speak of what every one knows.~
293 Text |           mortal discourse, let me speak briefly, and in a figure.
294 Text |       describe; for I must dare to speak the truth, when truth is
295 Text |          the initiation of which I speak into the mysteries of true
296 Text |         about which he is going to speak?~PHAEDRUS: And yet, Socrates,
297 Text |         forced any man to learn to speak in ignorance of the truth!
298 Text |           he will never be able to speak about anything as he ought
299 Text |            anything as he ought to speak unless he have a knowledge
300 Text |    generalization; they help me to speak and to think. And if I find
301 Text |           who teaches his pupil to speak scientifically, will particularly
302 Text |          knows also when he should speak and when he should refrain,
303 Text |            Do you know how you can speak or act about rhetoric in
304 Text |          itself, and knows when to speak and when to be silent.~PHAEDRUS:
305 Text |            words which can neither speak for themselves nor teach


Philebus
    Part
306 Intro|          by his having occasion to speak of memory as the basis of
307 Intro|           a higher sphere, when we speak of necessity and free-will,
308 Intro|            surely we might as well speak of the pains of digestion
309 Intro|       Socrates in what follows.~We speak of a one and many, which
310 Intro|            not steal,’ ‘thou shalt speak the truth,’ ‘thou shalt
311 Intro|            by the same writers who speak thus depreciatingly of our
312 Intro|       individual not universal; we speak of eternal and immutable
313 Intro|      morals.~And this brings us to speak of the most serious objection
314 Intro|          when the temptation is to speak falsely, to be dishonest
315 Text |            their will.~PROTARCHUS: Speak plainer.~SOCRATES: The principle
316 Text |         and controverted. When you speak of hotter and colder, can
317 Text |            Yes, indeed; and when I speak of the third class, understand
318 Text |             if I may be allowed to speak in the fewest and shortest
319 Text |            not yet entered; and to speak of the loss of that which
320 Text |         Protarchus, then we should speak of a bad opinion or of a
321 Text |         any of them, should we not speak of a right opinion or right
322 Text |       corruption we will hereafter speak, if we care to continue
323 Text |     temperance? Reflect before you speak.~PROTARCHUS: I understand
324 Text |           SOCRATES: Why, do we not speak of anger, fear, desire,
325 Text |          is it?~SOCRATES: When you speak of purity and clearness,
326 Text |          inferior.~PROTARCHUS: You speak riddles.~SOCRATES: You have
327 Text |            the masters of whom you speak, Socrates, and hope for


Protagoras
    Part
328 Intro|         almost as soon as they can speak, and is continued by the
329 Intro|          he must beg Protagoras to speak shorter. As Protagoras declines
330 Intro|            admits his inability to speak long; will Protagoras in
331 Intro|       acknowledge his inability to speak short?~Counsels of moderation
332 Text |         now, in order that you may speak to him on my behalf; for
333 Text |           Do you wish, he said, to speak with me alone, or in the
334 Text |          whether you would wish to speak to him of your teaching
335 Text |           with you, if you want to speak with me, in the presence
336 Text |             and he will be able to speak and act for the best in
337 Text |        like? Shall I, as an elder, speak to you as younger men in
338 Text |        heard, I said, that you can speak and teach others to speak
339 Text |          speak and teach others to speak about the same things at
340 Text |        capable of either, ought to speak shorter as I beg you, and
341 Text |     Protagoras may fairly claim to speak in his own way, just as
342 Text |          way, just as you claim to speak in yours.~Here Alcibiades
343 Text |          domain of poetry; we will speak as before of virtue, but
344 Text |         who has been accustomed to speak a barbarous language, is
345 Text |          unless you suppose him to speak with a hostile reference
346 Text |         think about that. When you speak of brave men, do you mean
347 Text |            say: ‘Friends, when you speak of goods being painful,
348 Text |           you spend many words and speak in many ways on this subject?’
349 Text |          cannot deny. And when you speak of being overcome—‘what


The Republic
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350 1    |     escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped
351 1    |          convinced by you when you speak thus; they think that old
352 1    |            justice, what is it?-to speak the truth and to pay your
353 1    |         say that I ought always to speak the truth to one who is
354 1    |            was in reality eager to speak; for he thought that he
355 1    |        anyone who appears to me to speak well you will very soon
356 1    |          ask, in what sense do you speak of a ruler or stronger whose
357 1    |          since you will not let me speak. What else would you have? ~
358 1    |         action; nay, more, that to speak as we did of men who are
359 2    |     Thrasymachus. And first I will speak of the nature and origin
360 2    |          company and they began to speak of him as if he were no
361 2    |             he must be one who can speak with effect, if any of his
362 2    |           or neither. If the poets speak truly, why, then, we had
363 2    |           their true nature. But I speak in this vehement manner,
364 2    |           all means. ~And when you speak of music, do you include
365 2    |     children, and at the same time speak blasphemy against the gods. ~
366 2    |          which we should write and speak about divine things. The
367 3    |        pupil of a gymnasium not to speak the truth about his own
368 3    |     subjects of poetry: let us now speak of the style; and when this
369 3    |           informs you, is going to speak? ~Certainly. ~And this assimilation
370 3    |            chosen and appointed. I speak generally, and not with
371 3    |   hesitation when you have heard. ~Speak, he said, and fear not.
372 3    |            not. Well, then, I will speak, although I really know
373 4    |              Why so? ~You ought to speak of other States in the plural
374 4    |           lawlessness of which you speak too easily steals in. ~Yes,
375 5    |    deceiver; take courage then and speak. ~Well, I said, the law
376 5    |          Of them I will proceed to speak, and the more readily since
377 5    |           as we have determined to speak our minds, we must not fear
378 5    |         State of a ruler who would speak of one of his colleagues
379 5    |            your guardians think or speak of any other guardian as
380 5    |          such a State is possible: speak out and at once. ~Let me
381 6    |            done with them, we will speak of the imitators of philosophy,
382 6    |            reprobation of which we speak. ~What are these corruptions?
383 6    |       supplied by public opinion-I speak, my friend, of human virtue
384 6    |          to the words of which you speak. ~And this was what we foresaw,
385 6    |        that of this I was about to speak, concerning which, as you
386 6    |           likest him, I would fain speak, if I could be sure that
387 6    |           sister arts. ~And when I speak of the other division of
388 6    |          you will understand me to speak of that other sort of knowledge
389 7    |          carry on the metaphor and speak after their manner of the
390 8    |           truly; how can the muses speak falsely? ~And what do the
391 8    |          and while the keener sort speak and act, the rest keep buzzing
392 8    |          up, and who are in power, speak their minds to him and to
393 9    |             or if they are able to speak, they turn informers and
394 9    |          One of whom I am about to speak. ~Who is that? ~He who is
395 9    |      answer that he should ever so speak and act as to give the man
396 10   |        truth, and therefore I will speak out. ~Very good, he said. ~
397 10   |          believe. ~Shall we, then, speak of him as the natural author
398 10   |           they seem to the many to speak so well? ~The question,
399 10   |            poets the permission to speak in prose on her behalf:
400 10   |            argument owes to them. ~Speak, he said; there are few


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
401 Text |           to say in answer to him, speak out.~ALCIBIADES: It is difficult,
402 Text |            to that art? Do you not speak of one who knows what is
403 Text |           And in a similar way you speak of a good boxer or a good
404 Text |          most just who know how to speak and act towards Gods and


The Seventh Letter
    Part
405 Text |          it.~It is right for me to speak the truth, and make no complaint
406 Text |          On this point I intend to speak a little more at length;
407 Text |          is attempting to write or speak; for they are sometimes


The Sophist
    Part
408 Intro|            abstractions, if we may speak in the metaphorical language
409 Intro|            is wholly false; and to speak of true falsehood, as Theaetetus
410 Intro|           winnowing? And they also speak of carding, spinning, and
411 Intro|           not admitted, no one can speak of falsehood, or false opinion,
412 Intro|           recently, Sicilian muses speak of a one and many which
413 Intro|        adopt a gentler strain, and speak of alternation only. Whether
414 Intro|            part of mankind, we may speak of it as due to the imperfection
415 Text |         profess, not that he could speak or dispute, but that he
416 Text |           he has.~STRANGER: Do you speak advisedly, or are you carried
417 Text |           speaking of something we speak of being, for to speak of
418 Text |          we speak of being, for to speak of an abstract something
419 Text |          says ‘not-being’ does not speak at all.~THEAETETUS: The
420 Text |          mean? Do not be afraid to speak.~STRANGER: To that which
421 Text |          indeed?~STRANGER: When we speak of things which are not,
422 Text |      THEAETETUS: What do you mean? Speak more clearly.~STRANGER:
423 Text |           singular verb, did I not speak of not-being as one?~THEAETETUS:
424 Text |   endeavour with all your might to speak of not-being in a right
425 Text |          some one or other who can speak of not-being without number,
426 Text |           these objects, which you speak of as many, and yet call
427 Text |            what you mean, when you speak of being; for there can
428 Text |         place among beings, cannot speak either of essence or generation
429 Text |          proceed to view those who speak less precisely; and we shall
430 Text |          mind, and yet ventures to speak confidently about anything.~
431 Text |           STRANGER: I mean that we speak of man, for example, under
432 Text |        thousand others we not only speak of him as a man, but also
433 Text |       instead of three; or when we speak of the same and other, are
434 Text |        question?~STRANGER: When we speak of not-being, we speak,
435 Text |          we speak of not-being, we speak, I suppose, not of something
436 Text |            mean?~STRANGER: When we speak of something as not great,
437 Text |        STRANGER: Then, now, let us speak of names, as before we were
438 Text |          Of whom does the sentence speak, and who is the subject?
439 Text |           admitted by every one to speak of me, and to apply to me.~
440 Text |     STRANGER: And shall we further speak of this latter class as


The Statesman
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441 Intro|      Barbarians: ‘if a crane could speak, he would in like manner
442 Intro|            deficiency of which you speak?’ No higher truth can be
443 Intro|          in which all who like may speak, the skilled as well as
444 Text |      STRANGER: I will endeavour to speak more plainly out of love
445 Text |          Might not an idiot, so to speak, know that he is a pedestrian?~
446 Text |         YOUNG SOCRATES: How must I speak of them, then?~STRANGER:
447 Text |           great error of which you speak?~STRANGER: There were two;
448 Text |      recognize them, and think and speak falsely of them.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
449 Text |            believing themselves to speak wisely, that the art of
450 Text |        SOCRATES: How?~STRANGER: We speak of an action as energetic
451 Text |          apply the name of which I speak as the common attribute


The Symposium
    Part
452 Intro|        physician shall cure him or speak in his turn. Eryximachus
453 Intro|           speech follows:—~He will speak of the god first and then
454 Intro|         fancied that they meant to speak the true praises of love,
455 Intro|      falsely, but he is willing to speak the truth, and proposes
456 Intro|            a speech, and will only speak at all upon the condition
457 Intro|    condition that he is allowed to speak the truth. We may note also
458 Intro|          them, not that you should speak the truth about them—this
459 Intro|          argue before he begins to speak. He expresses the very genius
460 Intro|         the truth, and if he is to speak the truth of Love he must
461 Intro|             As the Christian might speak of hungering and thirsting
462 Intro|          is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the
463 Intro|          the mediaeval saint might speak of the ‘fruitio Dei;’ as
464 Text |           them if you like. For to speak or to hear others speak
465 Text |            speak or to hear others speak of philosophy always gives
466 Text |           to hear one other person speak: Is Agathon able to drink
467 Text |          word’~which I am about to speak, but that of Phaedrus. For
468 Text |         been taught by the wise to speak; and Aristodemus said that
469 Text |            stop my hiccough, or to speak in my turn until I have
470 Text |           said Eryximachus: I will speak in your turn, and do you
471 Text |           in your turn, and do you speak in mine; and while I am
472 Text |          although you are going to speak, you are making fun of me;
473 Text |            expense, when you might speak in peace.~You are right,
474 Text |          the audience that I shall speak well.~I should be strangely
475 Text |           say first how I ought to speak, and then speak:—~The previous
476 Text |           ought to speak, and then speak:—~The previous speakers,
477 Text |            the god first, and then speak of his gifts; this is always
478 Text |           his virtue I have now to speak: his greatest glory is that
479 Text |          spoken, but I have yet to speak of his wisdom; and according
480 Text |          be in a strait who has to speak after he has heard such
481 Text |            true praise, and should speak well. Whereas I now see
482 Text |          about love, I am ready to speak in my own manner, though
483 Text |            and the company bid him speak in any manner which he thought
484 Text |           Agathon, in proposing to speak of the nature of Love first
485 Text |          suggested (supra), I must speak first of the being and nature
486 Text |        life?’~Such, Phaedrus—and I speak not only to you, but to
487 Text |         have never been allowed to speak to any other fair one, or
488 Text |         well drunken, you ought to speak, and then impose upon Socrates
489 Text |         your praise?~I am going to speak the truth, if you will permit
490 Text |          permit, but exhort you to speak the truth.~Then I will begin
491 Text |          though my intention is to speak the truth. But you must
492 Text |           you must not wonder if I speak any how as things come into
493 Text |            a caricature, and yet I speak, not to make fun of him,
494 Text |            you to listen; and if I speak falsely, do you, Socrates,
495 Text |         with us, I should hear him speak the language which lovers
496 Text |               and therefore I must speak. Nor, again, should I be
497 Text |         appear to be too modest to speak. Now I feel that I should


Theaetetus
    Part
498 Intro|    disciple of Heracleitus, not to speak of lesser resemblances in
499 Intro|            is almost too modest to speak, but, encouraged by Socrates,
500 Intro|          wisest of men delights to speak of himself.~The other digression