The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|   conversational manner, the seeming want of arrangement, the ironical
  2 Text |            sir, is not my meaning. I want to know who the person is,
  3 Text |           from any self-assertion or want of respect for you. Whether
  4 Text |              or by many. For I am in want, and he has enough; and
  5 Text |             I am not wise, when they want to reproach you. If you


Charmides
    Part
  6 PreS |            Greek is increased by the want of adversative and inferential
  7 PreS |           Greek). There is a similar want of particles expressing
  8 PreS |            construction owing to the want of case endings. For the
  9 PreS |     intelligible than the Greek. The want of more distinctions between
 10 Intro|            or many. (iv) They have a want of depth, when compared
 11 Text |       Charmides, and tell him that I want him to come and see a physician
 12 Text |           And Charmides, who did not want to answer himself, but to
 13 Text |             different results. Now I want you, Critias, to answer
 14 Text |              admit that?~Yes.~Now, I want to know, what is that which
 15 Text |            that.~But is knowledge or want of knowledge of health the
 16 Text |             the same as knowledge or want of knowledge of justice?~


Cratylus
    Part
 17 Intro|     expressly draws attention to the want of agreement in words and
 18 Intro|               nor, indeed, could the want of such a language be felt
 19 Intro|            in the animals there is a want of that sympathy with one
 20 Text |        previous words.~SOCRATES: You want me first of all to examine
 21 Text |            all this be true, I still want to know what is justice.’
 22 Text |             the delta into nu if you want to get at the meaning; for
 23 Text |          true.~SOCRATES: And when we want to express ourselves, either
 24 Text |           imitation of that which we want to express.~HERMOGENES:
 25 Text |           false:—which is all that I want to know.~CRATYLUS: I should
 26 Text |          they are carried round, and want to drag us in after them.


Critias
    Part
 27 Text |              of easy. This is what I want to suggest to you, and at


Crito
    Part
 28 Text |           attributed entirely to our want of courage. The trial need
 29 Text |             nonsense? That is what I want to consider with your help,
 30 Text |            sake of your children—you want to bring them up and educate


Euthydemus
    Part
 31 Intro|             quite another sort.~‘You want Cleinias to be wise?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘
 32 Intro|           wise yet?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then you want him to be what he is not,
 33 Text |            sons as a bait; they will want to have them as pupils,
 34 Text |         every unvirtuous person will want to learn. I shall be the
 35 Text |              of you who say that you want this young man to become
 36 Text |             friends they must be who want their favourite not to be,
 37 Text |               the knowledge which we want is one that uses as well
 38 Text |        agreed.~And clearly we do not want the art of the flute-maker;
 39 Text |           give them money; no age or want of capacity is an impediment.


Euthyphro
    Part
 40 Intro|           and giving’—asking what we want and giving what they want;
 41 Intro|            want and giving what they want; in short, a mode of doing
 42 Intro|           and which is the universal want of all men. To this the
 43 Text |          SOCRATES: In like manner, I want you to tell me what part
 44 Text |        asking to ask of them what we want?~EUTHYPHRO: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
 45 Text |             them in return what they want of us. There would be no
 46 Text |           one that which he does not want.~EUTHYPHRO: Very true, Socrates.~


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 47 Text |           one of them remains. And I want you to understand the reason
 48 Text |            same question—What do you want? And what is your motive
 49 Text |           tell me why?~SOCRATES: You want to know whether I can make
 50 Text |              I call gymnastic, and I want to know what you call the
 51 Text |            the same thing, when they want a piece of wood or a stone?
 52 Text |             Yes.~SOCRATES: And if we want to instruct any one in them,
 53 Text |              are to be happy, do not want walls, or triremes, or docks,


Gorgias
    Part
 54 Intro|             but he thinks that great want of manners is shown in bringing
 55 Intro|     According to his view, those who want nothing are not happy. ‘
 56 Intro|            figure of a truth which I want to make you acknowledge,
 57 Intro|            ashamed; but if I die for want of your flattering rhetoric,
 58 Intro|           upon ourselves, because we want to restore the balance which
 59 Intro|             we regret; when from any want of self-control we give
 60 Text |             Chaerephon—does Socrates want to hear Gorgias?~CHAEREPHON:
 61 Text |          answer our questions? for I want to hear from him what is
 62 Text |           Let Gorgias answer.’ Now I want you, Gorgias, to imagine
 63 Text |            Quite so.~SOCRATES: Now I want to know about rhetoric in
 64 Text |              is, that there is great want of manners in bringing the
 65 Text |             wonder at me; but if you want to silence me, silence philosophy,
 66 Text |            this is the point which I want to have cleared up. Are
 67 Text |            not the men to faint from want of soul.~SOCRATES: See now,
 68 Text |             SOCRATES: Then those who want nothing are not truly said
 69 Text |            owing to a bad memory and want of faith. These notions
 70 Text |              get enough of what they want?~CALLICLES: Are you not
 71 Text |              the satisfaction of the want?~CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 72 Text |             play, you, like a child, want to keep hold and will not
 73 Text |           But who else is willing?—I want to finish the argument.~
 74 Text |            that defence of which the want will make a man truly ridiculous?
 75 Text |            yet as far as possible? I want to know whether you agree
 76 Text |           ridiculous. O my friend! I want you to see that the noble
 77 Text |              in the state; whereas I want you to think and see whether
 78 Text |     contention, but because I really want to know in what way you
 79 Text |          desiring.~CALLICLES: Do you want me to agree with you?~SOCRATES:
 80 Text |            alone; and if I died from want of ability to do so, that


Ion
    Part
 81 Text |              think that the Hellenes want a rhapsode with his golden
 82 Text |             golden crown, and do not want a general?~ION: Why, Socrates,


Laches
    Part
 83 Intro|           circles. In the Meno their want of education in all but
 84 Text |        nature of the art of which we want to find the masters?~MELESIAS:
 85 Text |            Nicias and Laches what we want to know, for the sake of
 86 Text |              NICIAS: Laches does not want to instruct me, Socrates;
 87 Text |            and the hopeful: I do not want you to be thinking one thing
 88 Text |            that you are very much in want of knowledge.~LACHES: You


Laws
    Book
 89 1    |              am willing—And first, I want to know why the law has
 90 1    |            and offer laws whenever a want is felt, and one man has
 91 1    |            pursue the subject. And I want to know the nature of all
 92 1    |         management of a feast; and I want you to tell me what great
 93 1    |         raised, is precisely what we want to hear.~Athenian. Very
 94 1    |     Certainly.~Athenian. And when we want to make any one fearless,
 95 1    |       Clearly.~Athenian. And when we want to make him rightly fearful,
 96 2    |            are ashamed of these, and want to have the best.~Cleinias.
 97 3    |       observe by word and oath? This want of harmony may have had
 98 3    |            they hated; and when they want the people to fight for
 99 3    |             hire, as if they were in want of more men. And they cannot
100 3    |           just what I at this moment want; most auspiciously have
101 4    |         newly–founded city; but I do want to know what the situation
102 4    |              When they are angry and want to satisfy their feelings
103 5    |         rebuke them when they show a want of reverence. But this quality
104 5    |              from ignorance, or from want of self–control, or both.
105 5    |             have nothing, and are in want of food, show a disposition
106 5    |               Touching evil men, who want to join and be citizens
107 5    |          share with those who are in want, sometimes remitting and
108 5    |            freeman, and should never want to acquire riches by any
109 5    |              the question—”What do I want?” and “Do I attain my aim,
110 6    |        broken, still, while he is in want of education, he naturally
111 6    |            and greatest and sharpest want and desire breaks out last,
112 7    |         would be an unseemliness and want of propriety in making them
113 7    |           that at present there is a want of clearness in what I am
114 7    |         Corybantes; for when mothers want their restless children
115 7    |             Do not nurses, when they want to know what an infant desires,
116 7    |            do with the permanence or want of permanence in legislation.
117 7    |        influence of this desire will want other institutions and laws;
118 7    |              of many things. And you want me now to tell them plainly
119 7    |              that I am not wholly in want of a pattern, for when I
120 7    |           cowardly!~Cleinias. Such a want of education, Stranger,
121 8    |           abundance to him who is in want. And when either of these
122 8    |            to sell to the people who want to buy, and of implements
123 9    |              may go uncultivated for want of money. But if any one
124 9    |       educating him; and he does not want to be made a doctor, but
125 9    |         disposition, and a miserable want of education. Of this want
126 9    |           want of education. Of this want of education, the false
127 9    |         shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon
128 10   |          relatives; and so from some want of reasoning power, and
129 10   |              what they are only from want of understanding, and not
130 11   |             unsettled, and from this want of definiteness in their
131 12   |            and also endurance of the want of meats and drinks, and
132 12   |         examination, or of which the want will make the subject of
133 12   |            true.~Athenian. We do not want many illustrations about
134 12   |              two things at once—they want to be at the same time free


Lysis
    Part
135 Intro|          evils, is commonly due to a want of tact and insight. There
136 Text |             your favourite, I do not want to hear them; but I want
137 Text |             want to hear them; but I want to know the purport of them,
138 Text |              that would show a great want of wit: do you not agree.~
139 Text |            you mean? I said. Do they want you to be happy, and yet
140 Text |            like? for example, if you want to mount one of your father’
141 Text |            age: for example, if they want anything read or written,
142 Text |            neighbourhood, he did not want to be seen by Lysis; so
143 Text |             that is the reason why I want you to argue with him.~That
144 Text |               indeed, he said; but I want you to put him down.~That
145 Text |            friend is acquired. But I want to ask you a question about
146 Text |              white.~Certainly.~Now I want to know whether in all cases
147 Text |       desires that of which he is in want?~Yes.~And that of which
148 Text |           And that of which he is in want is dear to him?~True.~And
149 Text |              him?~True.~And he is in want of that of which he is deprived?~


Meno
    Part
150 Intro|            to make us reflect on the want of method which prevails
151 Text |             am seeking.~MENO: If you want to have one definition of
152 Text |               but this is not what I want; tell me then, since you
153 Text |              not understand what you want, or know what you are saying;
154 Text |       another, or in other words the want of them, may be equally
155 Text |              the non-acquisition and want of them, but whatever is
156 Text |             And if you find what you want, how will you ever know
157 Text |             say of eight feet; and I want to know whether you still
158 Text |              that his son showed any want of capacity?~ANYTUS: Very


Parmenides
    Part
159 Intro|              qualities, is there any want of clearness or precision.
160 Intro|             spurious. The accidental want of external evidence, at
161 Intro|              Parmenides rebukes this want of consistency in Socrates,
162 Intro|         Socrates attributes to him a want of practice in dialectic.
163 Intro|            Socrates is involved to a want of comprehensiveness in
164 Intro|              Ideas. Nor is there any want of poetical consistency
165 Text |              may that be? he said.~I want you to tell me the name
166 Text |             But, if that is what you want, let us go and look for


Phaedo
    Part
167 Intro|             haters of arguments. The want of health and truth is not
168 Intro|             says Socrates, because I want to show you not only that
169 Text |              away. The wise man will want to be ever with him who
170 Text |              out of opposites. And I want to show that in all opposites
171 Text |             not, said Simmias; but I want to have this doctrine of
172 Text |          blaming himself and his own want of wit, because he is annoyed,
173 Text |             Here lies the point:—You want to have it proven to you
174 Text |           explanation given, and not want any other sort of cause.
175 Text |            and on other occasions: I want to show you the nature of
176 Text |              speak as I do because I want you to agree with me in
177 Text |          upon Crito. And therefore I want you to be surety for me


Phaedrus
    Part
178 Intro|            the decline. There is the want of method in physical science,
179 Intro|             in physical science, the want of criticism in history,
180 Intro|            criticism in history, the want of simplicity or delicacy
181 Intro|              delicacy in poetry, the want of political freedom, which
182 Intro|             which is in him dies for want of cultivation. It has never
183 Text |              For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this,
184 Text |             three times, either from want of words or from want of
185 Text |           from want of words or from want of pains; and also, he appeared
186 Text |              and temperate, does not want to do as he did or to be
187 Text |              Phaedrus, what an utter want of delicacy was shown in
188 Text |            and his fellow-steed, for want of courage and manhood,
189 Text |              for examples of art and want of art, according to our
190 Text |           you will not find what you want.~SOCRATES: Read, that I
191 Text |             with those who from some want of dialectical skill are
192 Text |          agree with you. But I still want to know where and how the
193 Text |             intelligence, but if you want to know anything and put
194 Text |              the rhetorical skill or want of skill which was shown


Philebus
    Part
195 Intro|      diminution of artistic skill, a want of character in the persons,
196 Intro|              or rather, perhaps, the want of plan renders the progress
197 Intro|          their respective claims, we want to know the number and kinds
198 Intro|           pain; in his body there is want which is a cause of pain,
199 Intro|              of virtue. But still we want truth? That is now added;
200 Intro|              God.’ What more does he want?~But whence comes this common
201 Intro|        contemporaries by egotism and want of taste; and this generation
202 Intro|         points, its ambiguities, its want of exactness while assuming
203 Text |             it cannot be supposed to want anything, but if either
204 Text |            but if either is shown to want anything, then it cannot
205 Text |               Reflect; would you not want wisdom and intelligence
206 Text |            would you not at any rate want sight?~PROTARCHUS: Why should
207 Text |            life of mind?~SOCRATES: I want to know whether any one
208 Text |          think, at present; but if I want a fifth at some future time
209 Text |        PROTARCHUS: What?~SOCRATES: I want to know whether such things
210 Text |              What is it?~SOCRATES: I want to attain the plainest possible
211 Text |            clearly, and the seer may want to determine what it is
212 Text |      instances.~SOCRATES: Then if we want to see the true nature of
213 Text |              that they have a deeper want and greater pleasure in
214 Text |            the satisfaction of their want?~PROTARCHUS: That is obvious
215 Text |             magnitude of pleasure; I want to know where pleasures
216 Text |          been unnecessary. And now I want to know whether I may depart;
217 Text |           general those of which the want is painless and unconscious,
218 Text | self-existent, and the other ever in want of something.~PROTARCHUS:
219 Text |          generation?~PROTARCHUS: You want to know whether that which
220 Text |             lives, or shall we still want some elements of another
221 Text |         others; there would be great want of sense in any one who
222 Text |            good—there would be great want of sense in his allowing
223 Text |          SOCRATES: He knows that any want of measure and symmetry


Protagoras
    Part
224 Text |            to any customer who is in want of them, praise them all
225 Text |          come to see Callias, but we want to see Protagoras; and I
226 Text |          conversing with you, if you want to speak with me, in the
227 Text |             In flute-playing.’ Now I want you to make the same sort
228 Text |             gift. Now I, Protagoras, want to ask of you a little question,
229 Text |           they made up virtue. Now I want you to tell me truly whether
230 Text |               or in any other way? I want to know whether the comparison
231 Text |              me, I replied; I do not want this ‘if you wish’ or ‘if
232 Text |       conclusion to be proven, but I want you and me to be proven:
233 Text |          adversaries desired, as you want me to do, I should have
234 Text |         comply. And therefore if you want to see Crison and me in
235 Text |            And in like manner if you want to hear me and Protagoras
236 Text |              when the Lacedaemonians want to unbend and hold free
237 Text |             Very true, I said. But I want to know against what do
238 Text |             to be dangers, since the want of self-control, which makes
239 Text |            yourself, he said.~I only want to ask one more question,
240 Text |             more question, I said. I want to know whether you still


The Republic
    Book
241 1    |           Acquired! Socrates; do you want to know how much I acquired?
242 1    |             of money; for you do not want a just man to be your counsellor
243 1    |             Certainly. ~And when you want to buy a ship, the shipwright
244 1    |              be preferred? ~When you want a deposit to be kept safely. ~
245 1    |             inference. ~And when you want to keep a pruning-hook safe,
246 1    |              the State; but when you want to use it, then the art
247 1    |               Clearly. ~And when you want to keep a shield or a lyre,
248 1    |              is useful; but when you want to use them, then the art
249 1    |           another? I say that if you want really to know what justice
250 1    |              and in the end we shall want judges to decide; but if
251 1    |          questioned by anyone. But I want to view the matter, Thrasymachus,
252 2    |           why do you ask? ~Because I want to know in which of the
253 2    |         their rewards and results, I want to know what they are in
254 2    |             in a satisfactory way. I want to hear justice praised
255 2    |            confess to you, because I want to hear from you the opposite
256 2    |      merchants? ~Yes. ~Then we shall want merchants? ~We shall. ~And
257 2    |         people there who, seeing the want, undertake the office of
258 2    |             who desire to buy. ~This want, then, creates a class of
259 2    |              required by any natural want; such as the whole tribe
260 2    |              s dresses. And we shall want more servants. Will not
261 2    |           and tillage, and they will want a slice of ours, if, like
262 2    |             in States? for we do not want either to omit what is to
263 3    |      harmonies I know nothing, but I want to have one warlike, to
264 3    |           and melodies, we shall not want multiplicity of notes or
265 3    |              and a great sign of the want of good-breeding, that a
266 3    |             and infusion: he did not want to lengthen out good-for-nothing
267 3    |            keep watchdogs, who, from want of discipline or hunger,
268 4    |          said, that dyers, when they want to dye wool for making the
269 5    |                Yes, there will be no want of peace. ~And as the guardians
270 5    |     admissions. ~What admissions? ~I want to know whether ideals are
271 6    |         argument, owing to their own want of skill in asking and answering
272 6    |            the more sensitive to the want of a suitable environment,
273 6    |             and fellow-citizens will want to use him as he gets older
274 6    |            flatter him, because they want to get into their hands
275 6    |             hindered, I said, by any want of will, but, if at all,
276 6    |           will, but, if at all, by a want of power: my zeal you may
277 6    |       respect of their clearness and want of clearness, and you will
278 7    |     patronizes them; this leads to a want of energy in the pursuit
279 7    |           them; then disciples would want to come, and there would
280 7    |          what way make allowance? ~I want you, I said, by way of parallel,
281 8    |       persons is to be attributed to want of education, ill-training,
282 8    |             admit that owing to this want of cultivation there will
283 8    |             will have to look if you want to discover his rogueries? ~
284 9    |            observe the point which I want to understand: Certain of
285 9    |              tyrant who may probably want them for a war; and if there
286 9    |              ready tools; or if they want anything from anybody, they
287 9    |             from superfluity or from want; and upon this principle
288 10   |        impute to us any harshness or want of politeness, let us tell


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
289 Text |            same about discretion and want of discretion?~ALCIBIADES:
290 Text |           SOCRATES: Then madness and want of sense are the same?~ALCIBIADES:
291 Text |              men differ in regard to want of sense. Those who are


The Seventh Letter
    Part
292 Text |           you as a fugitive, not for want of hoplites, nor because
293 Text |          against my enemies, but for want of words and power of persuasion,
294 Text |            among them. It is for the want of this assistance on your


The Sophist
    Part
295 Intro|              of forms. There is some want of the higher Platonic art
296 Intro|           soul; and deformity is the want of symmetry, or failure
297 Intro|    philosophers. And what more do we want?’~The philosophy of Hegel
298 Intro|            all efforts to supply the want which the Greeks began to
299 Intro|           century before Christ,—the want of abstract ideas. Nor must
300 Intro|        defect in his system than the want of a sound theory of language.
301 Text |            made you ask?~SOCRATES: I want to know whether by his countrymen
302 Text |       oration on a subject which you want to explain to another, or
303 Text |             line of enquiry which we want.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~
304 Text |              you mean?~STRANGER: You want to know what is the meaning
305 Text |           deformity anything but the want of measure, which is always
306 Text |       symmetry among them, or of the want of symmetry?~THEAETETUS:
307 Text |           THEAETETUS: Clearly of the want of symmetry.~STRANGER: But
308 Text |           our reply will be, that we want to ascertain from them more
309 Text |            the men themselves be who want to carry out the argument


The Statesman
    Part
310 Intro|             these remarks, because I want you to get rid of any impression
311 Intro|   shipwrecked, others foundering for want of a pilot; and he wonders
312 Text |            do you refer?~STRANGER: I want to ask, whether any one
313 Text |          fitting; for we should only want such a length as is suited
314 Text |              What is it?~STRANGER: I want to know, whether any constructive


The Symposium
    Part
315 Intro|           they cannot tell what they want of one another. But if Hephaestus
316 Intro|             very expression of their want. For love is the desire
317 Intro|            that love is the child of want, and is not merely the love
318 Intro|              of philosophy. The same want in the human soul which
319 Intro|          seclusion of woman, and the want of a real family or social
320 Text |         quite right, and therefore I want to offer him a contribution;
321 Text |          become double. But when you want to use them in actual life,
322 Text |             do not act thus from any want of shame, but because they
323 Text |            them, ‘What do you people want of one another?’ they would
324 Text |            be in a great strait.~You want to cast a spell over me,
325 Text |           Agathon, that or any other want of refinement. And I am
326 Text |             explain myself: I do not want you to say that love is
327 Text |          this is, and tell me what I want to know—whether Love desires
328 Text |              desires something is in want of something, and that he
329 Text |            who desires nothing is in want of nothing, is in my judgment,
330 Text |            he who is anything cannot want to be that which he is?~
331 Text |             and health and strength, want to have the continuance
332 Text |            not your meaning that you want to have what you now have
333 Text |           not, and of which he is in want;—these are the sort of things
334 Text |              Love, because he was in want, desires those good and
335 Text |             things of which he is in want?’ ‘Yes, I did.’ ‘But how
336 Text |           out, and so he is never in want and never in wealth; and,
337 Text |            that of which he feels no want.’ ‘But who then, Diotima,’
338 Text |            for I am conscious that I want a teacher; tell me then
339 Text |          that were possible—you only want to look at them and to be
340 Text |            we will obey. What do you want?~Well, said Eryximachus,
341 Text |              the way at the end; you want to get up a quarrel between


Theaetetus
    Part
342 Intro|            war with one another.~The want of the Greek mind in the
343 Intro|              of practice—they do not want to be called procuresses.
344 Intro|          have no professional pride, want only to discover whether
345 Intro|              wisdom of my own, and I want to deliver you of something;
346 Intro|              of them.’~‘Excellent; I want you to grow, and therefore
347 Intro|          corresponding confusion and want of retentiveness; in the
348 Intro|              or under the impulse of want or desire or pain, to attain
349 Intro|               I feel,’ ‘I think,’ ‘I want,’ ‘I wish,’ ‘I like,’ ‘I
350 Text |            little difficulty which I want you and the company to aid
351 Text |              of conversation? I only want to make us talk and be friendly
352 Text |          which is what you appear to want; and therefore Theodorus
353 Text |         which in the soul only means want of attention and study,
354 Text |              by the Gods I am! and I want to know what on earth they
355 Text |             be no dispute, because I want you to grow; but there is
356 Text |             also his nothingness and want of manhood. For to know
357 Text |        disciples of theirs whom they want to make like themselves.~
358 Text |           thus precise is, because I want to know whether, when we
359 Text |      SOCRATES: Then, first of all, I want you to understand that a
360 Text |             SOCRATES: Exactly; and I want you to consider whether
361 Text |             you do, my friend; but I want to know first, whether you


Timaeus
    Part
362 Intro|             of Lucretius. There is a want of flow and often a defect
363 Intro|           cause we may attribute the want of plan. Plato had not the
364 Intro|     surprised that there should be a want of unity in a work which
365 Intro|            of their own, may through want of experience err in their
366 Intro|            or heaviness or power, or want of power, of penetration.
367 Intro|           therefore motion is due to want of uniformity. But then
368 Intro|           their natural places. Thus want of uniformity, the condition
369 Intro|          attribute to him a childish want of reasoning about very
370 Text |          words, that is just what we want.~Thus I state my view:—If
371 Text |         uniformity and motion to the want of uniformity. Now inequality
372 Text |            other bodies owing to the want of uniformity and the shape
373 Text |          disease of the mind to be a want of intelligence; and of