The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|             had gone to Delphi and asked the oracle if there was
  2 Intro|    accusation. The question may be asked, Why will he persist in
  3 Text |        knowing that he had sons, I asked him: ‘Callias,’ I said, ‘
  4 Text |          went to Delphi and boldly asked the oracle to tell him whether—
  5 Text |            you not to interrupt—he asked the oracle to tell him whether
  6 Text |            their own writings, and asked what was the meaning of
  7 Text |            wisdom; and therefore I asked myself on behalf of the
  8 Text |           is lying.~But I shall be asked, Why do people delight in


Charmides
    Part
  9 Intro|      temperate of human beings, is asked by Socrates, ‘What is Temperance?’
 10 Text |             and about the youth. I asked whether any of them were
 11 Text |     controlled myself, and when he asked me if I knew the cure of
 12 Text |           the question which I had asked: For, said he, if I affirm
 13 Text |          not those who do.~What! I asked; do you mean to say that
 14 Text |       suppose, I said, that I were asked by you what is the use or
 15 Text |            to the question which I asked, never minding whether Critias


Cratylus
    Part
 16 Intro|     questions were beginning to be asked about language which were
 17 Intro|       names at all; and when he is asked about the name of Hermogenes,
 18 Text |            you answer, if you were asked whether the wise or the


Euthydemus
    Part
 19 Text |         second question, when they asked you whether men learn what
 20 Text |          and which ought not to be asked by a sensible man: for what
 21 Text |         them all.~What is that? he asked.~Fortune, Cleinias, I replied;
 22 Text |          same thing twice over.~He asked what was the meaning of
 23 Text |          have been jesting when we asked them to converse with the
 24 Text |           why should you say so? I asked.~I see, he replied, that
 25 Text |           And what is your notion? asked Cleinias.~I think that the
 26 Text |          question of this sort was asked: Does the kingly art, having
 27 Text |        away by my incredulity, and asked Euthydemus whether Dionysodorus
 28 Text |            a question when you are asked one?~Well, I said; but then


Euthyphro
    Part
 29 Text |    question, What is ‘piety’? When asked, you only replied, Doing
 30 Text |      answered the question which I asked. For I certainly did not
 31 Text |            I meant to raise when I asked whether the just is always
 32 Text |           for instance, if you had asked me what is an even number,
 33 Text |           supposed that you did. I asked you the question about the
 34 Text |         the chief question which I asked, Euthyphro, if you had chosen.


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 35 Text |          not ashamed, when you are asked, not to be able to answer
 36 Text |           But I am not going to be asked again from whom I learned,
 37 Text |           Now the question which I asked was whether you conceive


Gorgias
    Part
 38 Intro|           division the question is asked—What is rhetoric? To this
 39 Intro|            replies to the question asked by Chaerephon,—that he is
 40 Intro|      statesmen, you answer—as if I asked you who were the good trainers,
 41 Intro|            is ready, when they are asked, to acknowledge that injustice
 42 Intro|     inventor.~The question is then asked, under which of these two
 43 Text |            questions which you are asked?~GORGIAS: Quite right, Chaerephon:
 44 Text |          elapsed since any one has asked me a new one.~CHAEREPHON:
 45 Text |          the question which he was asked.~GORGIAS: Then why not ask
 46 Text |             Polus, when Chaerephon asked you what was the art which
 47 Text |            to the question: nobody asked what was the quality, but
 48 Text |        answered Chaerephon when he asked you at first, to say what
 49 Text |            the questions which are asked of you?~GORGIAS: Some answers,
 50 Text |       there are of each. And if he asked again: ‘What is the art
 51 Text |      imagine that this question is asked of you by them and by me;
 52 Text |        this further question: If I asked, ‘What sort of a painter
 53 Text |     admiring mind, Gorgias, when I asked what is the nature of rhetoric,
 54 Text |    refusing to answer what you are asked, I am compelled to stay
 55 Text |         said that when Gorgias was asked by you, whether, if some
 56 Text |            the last resort you are asked, whether the life of a catamite
 57 Text |     Callicles, and about which you asked me whether I was in earnest
 58 Text |            in earnest, as if I had asked, Who are or have been good


Laches
    Part
 59 Text |           my friend Melesias and I asked you to go with us and see
 60 Text |          others, and when they are asked will not say what they think.
 61 Text |          minds of their sons, have asked our advice about them, we
 62 Text |           And suppose I were to be asked by some one: What is that
 63 Text |           him: I think that I have asked enough.~SOCRATES: I do not
 64 Text |           old enough, I would have asked him myself.~NICIAS: To that


Laws
    Book
 65 3    |          of the distribution, when asked to aid in repelling the
 66 4    |   monarchies; and, therefore, when asked on a sudden, I cannot precisely
 67 6    |          questions, to which, when asked by other cities, a city
 68 7    |          Once more then, as I have asked more than once, shall this
 69 9    |         questions which have to be asked in all such cases:—What
 70 10   |         questions of this sort are asked of me, my safest answer
 71 10   |           I mean, that when we are asked about the definition and
 72 10   |           the name, or when we are asked about the name and give
 73 12   |   intelligent beings, when you are asked are not able to tell. Can


Lysis
    Part
 74 Text |   Hippothales, seeing me approach, asked whence I came and whither
 75 Text |           what is this building, I asked; and what sort of entertainment
 76 Text |          said.~And who is yours? I asked: tell me that, Hippothales.~
 77 Text |             So he went away, and I asked Lysis some more questions.
 78 Text |    pretenders.~How do you mean? he asked.~Well, I said; look at the


Menexenus
    Part
 79 Text |           weary of the war at sea, asked of us, as the price of his


Meno
    Part
 80 Intro|       happens to be present. He is asked ‘whether Meno shall go to
 81 Intro|           notions of Socrates, who asked simply, ‘what is friendship?’ ‘
 82 Intro|        times it would no longer be asked. Their origin is only their
 83 Text |           the other figures if you asked me.~MENO: Courage and temperance
 84 Text |          Suppose now that some one asked you the question which I
 85 Text |           you the question which I asked before: Meno, he would say,
 86 Text |      SOCRATES: And if he similarly asked what colour is, and you
 87 Text |         Suppose that when a person asked you this question either
 88 Text |           SOCRATES: Why, because I asked you to deliver virtue into
 89 Text |          no such intention. I only asked the question from habit;
 90 Text |          but if he were frequently asked the same questions, in different
 91 Text |         for himself, if he is only asked questions?~MENO: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 92 Text |           geometrician, when he is asked whether a certain triangle


Parmenides
    Part
 93 Intro|           old acquaintance, and we asked him to repeat the dialogue.
 94 Intro|            yet these questions are asked with the express acknowledgment
 95 Text |            And could we hear it? I asked.~Nothing easier, he replied;
 96 Text |            my former visit, and we asked him to repeat the dialogue.
 97 Text |          Indeed, he said, you have asked a question which is not
 98 Text |             But may not the ideas, asked Socrates, be thoughts only,


Phaedo
    Part
 99 Intro|            question which had been asked by Evenus the poet (compare
100 Intro|        their consequences, and, if asked to give an account of them,
101 Text |            question which has been asked by many, and was asked of
102 Text |        been asked by many, and was asked of me only the day before
103 Text |            Socrates observing them asked what they thought of the
104 Text |         pressed his foot hard, and asked him if he could feel; and


Phaedrus
    Part
105 Intro|          of old. Would he not have asked of us, or rather is he not


Philebus
    Part
106 Intro|          good. (1) The question is asked, whether pleasure or wisdom
107 Intro|   controversy another question was asked: ‘Do pleasures differ in
108 Intro|          analogous to the question asked in the Philebus, ‘What rank
109 Text |   Protarchus, have my own question asked of me by you?~PROTARCHUS:
110 Text |            qualities which I, when asked by you at first what is
111 Text |          playful solemnity, when I asked the question to what class
112 Text |       which does not deserve to be asked.~SOCRATES: Well, tell me,
113 Text |           Dear Protarchus, I never asked which was the greatest or


Protagoras
    Part
114 Text |            money, and some one had asked you: What are Polycleitus
115 Text |            say the same thing, and asked him, ‘In what shall I become
116 Text |           and conciliation. Hermes asked Zeus how he should impart
117 Text |      already shown, but when he is asked a question he can answer
118 Text |           should answer to him who asked me, that justice is of the
119 Text |           suppose that he came and asked us, ‘What were you saying
120 Text |         imagine, by me; for I only asked the question; Protagoras
121 Text |            not, when a question is asked, slipping away from the
122 Text |     answering the precise question asked of him, you and I will unite
123 Text |            turn those which he was asked in short replies. He began
124 Text |             and of explaining when asked the reason of the difference.
125 Text |            not a contradiction? he asked. Reflect.~Well, my friend,
126 Text |           fact, he said.~How so? I asked.~The poet, he replied, could
127 Text |            you hear, Protagoras, I asked, what our friend Prodicus
128 Text |           was said by me. When you asked me, I certainly did say
129 Text |         confident; but I was never asked whether the confident are
130 Text |         the courageous; if you had asked me, I should have answered ‘
131 Text |           most persons whom I have asked the reason of this have
132 Text |          to the question which you asked of me and Protagoras. At
133 Text |   Protagoras. At the time when you asked the question, if you remember,
134 Text |          the matter with you. So I asked him whether by the brave


The Republic
    Book
135 1    |         wait. ~I turned round, and asked him where his master was. ~
136 1    |          received. ~That was why I asked you the question, I replied,
137 1    |       heaven! I replied; and if we asked him what due or proper thing
138 1    |          the error, Polemarchus? I asked. ~We assumed that he is
139 1    |          you, that whatever he was asked he would refuse to answer,
140 1    |            so to the person who is asked, ought he not to say what
141 1    |            that you are saying? he asked. ~I am only repeating what
142 1    |        repeat the question which I asked before, in order that our
143 1    |    understanding my meaning when I asked the question whether the
144 2    |      short-sighted person had been asked by someone to read small
145 3    |            are these two sorts? he asked. ~Suppose, I answered, that
146 3    |          not the same. ~How so? he asked. ~Why, I said, you join
147 3    |         soul. ~How can that be? he asked. ~Did you never observe,
148 4    |           two of them. ~How so? he asked. ~In the first place, I
149 4    |     purpose. ~What may that be? he asked. ~Education, I said, and
150 4    |          among whom is it found? I asked. ~It is the knowledge of
151 4    |         the preceding. ~How so? he asked. ~Temperance, I replied,
152 4    |           of necessity. ~If we are asked to determine which of these
153 4    |         different. ~How can we? he asked. ~I replied as follows:
154 4    |          assent, as if he had been asked a question? ~Very true. ~
155 5    |          they do. Then we shall be asked, "Whether the tasks assigned
156 5    |            question to answer when asked suddenly; and I shall and
157 5    |          punning riddles which are asked at feasts or the children'
158 6    |           is the next question? he asked. ~Surely, I said, the one
159 6    |          And how am I to do so? he asked. ~Why, I said, we know that
160 7    |      upward. ~What do you mean? he asked. ~You, I replied, have in
161 7    |          say six or four years? he asked. ~Say five years, I replied;
162 8    |        worst the most miserable. I asked you what were the four forms
163 9    |  conditions? ~What do you mean? he asked. ~Beginning with the State,
164 10   |          What is most required? he asked. ~That we should take counsel
165 10   |            when one of the spirits asked another, "Where is Ardiaeus


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
166 Text |           from evil even though we asked for it?~ALCIBIADES: I believe


The Seventh Letter
    Part
167 Text |            the objects for which I asked it; or you would have thought


The Sophist
    Part
168 Intro|          II. The question has been asked, whether the method of ‘
169 Intro|            contemplation of Being, asked no more questions, and never
170 Intro|          Stranger has been already asked the same question by Theodorus
171 Intro|           of them.~And when we are asked to believe the Hegelian
172 Intro|          still. Perhaps if he were asked how he can admire without
173 Text |          hearers of Parmenides was asked, ‘To what is the term “not-being”
174 Text |          the like, about which you asked, they would not venture
175 Text |   admissions, may we not be justly asked the same questions which
176 Text |             STRANGER: When we were asked to what we were to assign


The Statesman
    Part
177 Intro|        When a pupil at a school is asked the letters which make up
178 Intro|         particular word, is he not asked with a view to his knowing
179 Intro|        them. The question is often asked, What are the limits of
180 Text |             Certainly.~STRANGER: I asked you, because here is a new
181 Text |           to say that when we were asked about a king and statesman
182 Text |            his letters: when he is asked what letters make up a word,
183 Text | appointment, or any question to be asked—not even in sudden changes


The Symposium
    Part
184 Intro|       little; the question is then asked by Pausanias, one of the
185 Intro|         Socrates professes to have asked the same questions and to
186 Text |         Socrates. Moreover, I have asked Socrates about the truth
187 Text |            sandals was unusual, he asked him whither he was going
188 Text |        yesterday and meant to have asked you, if I could have found
189 Text |          answer as you would, if I asked is a father a father of
190 Text |              What then is Love?’ I asked; ‘Is he mortal?’ ‘No.’ ‘
191 Text |         beauty?’ ‘To what you have asked,’ I replied, ‘I have no


Theaetetus
    Part
192 Intro|             which has been already asked and indirectly answered
193 Intro|            them; as if he had been asked, ‘What is clay?’ and instead
194 Intro|           ancient Epicureans never asked whether the comparison of
195 Intro|            the best we can, we are asked to return again to the ‘
196 Text |       whenever I went to Athens, I asked Socrates about any point
197 Text |            in assuming that he who asked the question would understand
198 Text |        SOCRATES: And when a man is asked what science or knowledge
199 Text |         circuit. For example, when asked about the clay, he might
200 Text |            the report of questions asked by you was brought to me;
201 Text |        explain myself: just now we asked the question, whether a
202 Text |           say:—The worthy Socrates asked a little boy, whether the
203 Text |            of mine, and the person asked is found tripping, if he
204 Text |        SOCRATES: Then when we were asked what is knowledge, we no
205 Text |        ourselves, and, if you were asked, you might refer all such
206 Text |             that when a person was asked what was the nature of anything,
207 Text |       individually; but if any one asked what is a waggon, we should
208 Text |          to say just now, when you asked the question?~SOCRATES:
209 Text |           so, when the question is asked, What is knowledge? this


Timaeus
    Part
210 Intro|              What do you mean?’ he asked. ‘In mind,’ replied the
211 Text |        there with great honour; he asked the priests who were most
212 Text |         among you. Solon in return asked him what he meant. I mean
213 Text |           ready to teach me, and I asked him again and again to repeat
214 Text |           question which has to be asked at the beginning of an enquiry
215 Text |          is still a question to be asked about him: Which of the