The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|            Socrates, that he had no wish to live; and that the divine
  2 Intro|         penalty, or, if his friends wish, thirty minae; for which
  3 Intro|            persons will be found to wish that Socrates should have
  4 Text |            not of human beings?...I wish, men of Athens, that he


Charmides
    Part
  5 Ded  |      Editions (1870 and 1876) might wish to exchange it for the present
  6 Text |             particular drift, but I wish that you would tell me whether
  7 Text |           not.~Or can you imagine a wish which wishes for no good,
  8 Text |             do you mean? he said; I wish that you could make me understand


Cratylus
    Part
  9 Intro|     patronymics or expressions of a wish; let us try gods and demi-gods.
 10 Intro|       reason why his subjects never wish to come back, even if they
 11 Text |             are the expression of a wish like Eutychides (the son
 12 Text |             one which I should much wish to observe. Let us, then,
 13 Text |        tasks upon me. Still, if you wish, I will not refuse.~HERMOGENES:
 14 Text |           bole); and boulesthai (to wish) combines the notion of
 15 Text |            In my opinion, no. But I wish that you would tell me,


Crito
    Part
 16 Text |           opinion.~SOCRATES: I only wish it were so, Crito; and that
 17 Text |            and virtue? Say that you wish to live for the sake of


Euthydemus
    Part
 18 Text |            if you like; but first I wish that you would give me a
 19 Text |           think that we are.~Then I wish that you would be so good
 20 Text |             and so you say that you wish Cleinias to become wise?~
 21 Text |          him to say that he is.~You wish him, he said, to become
 22 Text |           ignorant?~That we do.~You wish him to be what he is not,
 23 Text |         consternation he added: You wish him no longer to be what
 24 Text |        which can only mean that you wish him to perish. Pretty lovers
 25 Text |           like to repeat, as that I wish Cleinias to perish?~Euthydemus
 26 Text |     Ctesippus, interrupting, I only wish that you would give me some
 27 Text |             Indeed I do; and I only wish that I could beat you instead


Euthyphro
    Part
 28 Text |          point which I should first wish to understand is whether
 29 Text |           anything but the truth. I wish, however, that you would


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 30 Intro|          The dialogue continues:—We wish to become as good as possible.
 31 Text |   excellence in playing the lyre, I wish you would tell me what this
 32 Text |            the unjust? Who is he? I wish you would tell me, that
 33 Text |          SOCRATES: What, do you not wish to be persuaded?~ALCIBIADES:
 34 Text |             together: for do we not wish to be as good as possible?~
 35 Text |             should say.~SOCRATES: I wish that you would explain to
 36 Text |             advice, Socrates, but I wish that you would explain to
 37 Text |           enable you to do what you wish for yourself and the state,


Gorgias
    Part
 38 Intro|     Socrates replies that he has no wish to put any one to death;
 39 Intro|             language, if you do not wish to drive me away. ‘I mean
 40 Intro|        giving laws to the dead.’~My wish for myself and my fellow-men
 41 Intro|        action. And we may sometimes wish that we could have suggested
 42 Intro|           what we will, but what we wish.~Socrates would teach us
 43 Intro|           what we will, but what we wish. All actions of which the
 44 Text |             be.’~SOCRATES: I should wish to do so.~GORGIAS: Then
 45 Text |             many too, who have this wish, but they would be too modest
 46 Text |              By heavens, Gorgias, I wish that you would reveal to
 47 Text |       experience.~POLUS: In what? I wish that you would explain to
 48 Text |           POLUS: Then you would not wish to be a tyrant?~SOCRATES:
 49 Text |           be the more courageous: I wish, my good friend, that you
 50 Text |          the pleasant?~CALLICLES: I wish I knew, Socrates, what your
 51 Text |          the other, which is good—I wish that you would tell me whether
 52 Text |            good and evil. And now I wish that you would tell me whether
 53 Text |     understand you, Socrates, and I wish that you would ask some
 54 Text |     tyrannical you are, Socrates! I wish that you and your argument
 55 Text |             appears to me to be the wish of the rest of the company;
 56 Text |        every man in the city, but I wish that you would hear me too.


Ion
    Part
 57 Text |       indeed, Socrates; I very much wish that you would: for I love
 58 Text |              Precisely.~SOCRATES: I wish you would frankly tell me,
 59 Text |         their corresponding arts, I wish that you would tell me what


Laches
    Part
 60 Text |              as Solon says, he will wish and desire to be learning
 61 Text |            his charge. I should not wish for any one else to be the


Laws
    Book
 62 1    |          occurring, every one would wish to be quit of as soon as
 63 2    |            O my father, did you not wish me to live as happily as
 64 3    |            true.~Athenian. I should wish you to understand that what
 65 3    |             things according to his wish, for his wish may be at
 66 3    |      according to his wish, for his wish may be at variance with
 67 3    |           and wisdom and freedom, I wish that you would tell me at
 68 3    |            of that day. And I would wish you and Cleinias to consider
 69 3    |   themselves.~Megillus. True; but I wish that you would give us a
 70 4    |            that?~Athenian. I should wish the citizens to be as readily
 71 5    |           but for pain; and we also wish for less pain and greater
 72 5    |          and greater pain we do not wish for; and an equal balance
 73 5    |       necessary order of things, we wish for that life in which there
 74 5    |           are in excess, and do not wish for that in which the opposites
 75 5    |           exceed; nor, again, do we wish for that in which the clements
 76 5    |            nature desire. And if we wish for any others, I say that
 77 7    |         spoke. Let us grant, if you wish, that the human race is
 78 7    |           then, what you would next wish to say.~Athenian. I should
 79 7    |             say.~Athenian. I should wish to say, Cleinias, as I said
 80 8    |         rather clear that we should wish to have in the state the
 81 9    |         will endeavour to do as you wish:—Concerning the soul, thus
 82 10   |           more to say; and I should wish to say of them only what
 83 10   |        opinion of many.~Cleinias. I wish that you would speak plainer.~
 84 11   |       feeling of pride, and he will wish to look higher. And there
 85 11   |        enact that they may, if they wish, lawfully renounce their
 86 12   |         little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but
 87 12   |           very good Stranger; but I wish you would tell me more clearly
 88 12   |           will preserve all that we wish to preserve.~Cleinias. What


Lysis
    Part
 89 Text |      perfect love you have found! I wish that you would favour me
 90 Text |             he said.~And they would wish you to be perfectly happy.~


Menexenus
    Part
 91 Text |             be—that is our word and wish, and as such we now offer


Meno
    Part
 92 Text |            A woman’s virtue, if you wish to know about that, may
 93 Text |             the question as I could wish.~SOCRATES: When you say,
 94 Text |       answer that question, Meno? I wish that you would try; the
 95 Text |             what you say is true, I wish that you would.~SOCRATES:
 96 Text |          the truth; and now he will wish to remedy his ignorance,
 97 Text |         some other; and therefore I wish to assume a hypothesis before
 98 Text |         them?~ANYTUS: And I have no wish to be acquainted.~SOCRATES:
 99 Text |            you are right. And now I wish that you, on your part,
100 Text |         with the best—and had he no wish to make good men of them?


Parmenides
    Part
101 Text |            that is why I am here; I wish to ask a favour of you.~


Phaedo
    Part
102 Intro|   possession of the gods, should he wish to die and leave them? For
103 Text |           you have nothing to do, I wish that you would tell me what
104 Text |            will try to gratify your wish. To be reminded of Socrates
105 Text |         given no intimation of your wish that he should die, would
106 Text |            and that you may, if you wish, add or subtract anything.~


Phaedrus
    Part
107 Text |             that is noble of him! I wish that he would say the poor
108 Text |         first whether that which we wish to learn and to teach is
109 Text |       shorter and easier one. And I wish that you would try and remember
110 Text |     question needs no answer; but I wish that you would tell me what
111 Text |             I think with you; but I wish that you would repeat what


Philebus
    Part
112 Text |     SOCRATES: That is what I should wish.~PROTARCHUS: And I am sure
113 Text |             I will try to meet your wish; but, as I would rather
114 Text |          That would certainly be my wish.~SOCRATES: Then now please
115 Text |              that if a person would wish to see the greatest pleasures
116 Text |       Because, Protarchus, I should wish to test pleasure and knowledge
117 Text |          PROTARCHUS: By the gods, I wish that you would repeat your
118 Text |             say that they would not wish to live without these and
119 Text |             parable and say: Do you wish to have the greatest and


Protagoras
    Part
120 Text |             come to see you.~Do you wish, he said, to speak with
121 Text |         determine whether you would wish to speak to him of your
122 Text |      learning, and invention. And I wish that you would, if possible,
123 Text |     holiness is like justice; and I wish that you would tell me whether
124 Text |            do not want this ‘if you wish’ or ‘if you will’ sort of
125 Text |          said: Protagoras, I do not wish to force the conversation
126 Text |         these long speeches: I only wish that I could. You, on the
127 Text |             distinguish ‘will’ and ‘wish,’ and make other charming
128 Text |       Simonides. And first of all I wish that you would say whether,
129 Text |            just because they do not wish to have it thought that
130 Text |      Socrates should ask.~I said: I wish Protagoras either to ask
131 Text |           will argue.~And would you wish to begin the enquiry? I
132 Text |             I said, if that is your wish; for I too ought long since


The Republic
    Book
133 1    |           to understand them; and I wish that you would be a little
134 1    |           for them; good men do not wish to be openly demanding payment
135 1    |             another just man, would wish and claim to have more than
136 1    |           meats and drinks would he wish to go beyond another physician
137 1    |            would not. ~But he would wish to go beyond the non-physician? ~
138 1    |            has knowledge ever would wish to have the choice of saying
139 1    |           he said, because I do not wish to quarrel with you. ~How
140 2    |             to me: Socrates, do you wish really to persuade us, or
141 2    |             to be unjust? ~I should wish really to persuade you,
142 2    |             be convinced by him. ~I wish, he said, that you would
143 2    |          man of sense would oftener wish to converse. ~I am delighted,
144 2    |          have described. But if you wish also to see a State at fever-heat,
145 2    |            of those which we should wish them to have when they are
146 4    |           sight of; and therefore I wish that you would do me the
147 4    |           his desire, intimates his wish to have it by a nod of assent,
148 4    |             may arise; and I should wish to guard against an opponent
149 4    |             a further point which I wish you to consider. ~What point? ~
150 5    |          they mean to do when their wish has come true-that is a
151 6    |             anything more which you wish to say? ~Nothing more on
152 6    |           course, he replied; but I wish that you would tell me whether
153 6    |              Very true. ~And do you wish to behold what is blind
154 6    |            the parent. ~I do indeed wish, I replied, that I could
155 7    |             will try, I said; and I wish you would share the inquiry
156 8    |         said. ~I shall particularly wish to hear what were the four
157 8    |             in reality; they do not wish to be, but the sting of


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
158 Text |         they change their tone, and wish their old prayers unsaid.
159 Text |         suppose that you would ever wish to act towards your mother


The Seventh Letter
    Part
160 Text |        fourth the knowledge. If you wish to learn what I mean, take
161 Text |             can, to all that he not wish me to sail, will anyone
162 Text |           you desire friendship and wish to benefit one another;


The Sophist
    Part
163 Text |             only.~STRANGER: And the wish of all of us, who are your
164 Text |        third little request which I wish to make.~THEAETETUS: What
165 Text |            not.~STRANGER: Or do you wish to imply that they are both
166 Text |           knowledge which you would wish me to gain.~STRANGER: Are


The Statesman
    Part
167 Text |          SOCRATES: Very true; but I wish that this distinction between
168 Text |          track; at the same time, I wish you to guard against imagining
169 Text |          view which I should always wish you to attribute to me,
170 Text | imperfection which still remains? I wish that you would tell me.~
171 Text |           YOUNG SOCRATES: I greatly wish that you would.~STRANGER:


The Symposium
    Part
172 Text |           said that you knew, and I wish that you would give me an
173 Text |           several times expressed a wish to send for him, but Aristodemus
174 Text |             what you sought.’~How I wish, said Socrates, taking his
175 Text |          any motive of interest, or wish for office or power. He
176 Text |          evil: in every word, work, wish, fear—saviour, pilot, comrade,
177 Text |          person says, I am well and wish to be well, or I am rich
178 Text |           be well, or I am rich and wish to be rich, and I desire
179 Text |        right.’ I said. ‘And is this wish and this desire common to


Theaetetus
    Part
180 Intro|          but at present he does not wish to be diverted from his
181 Intro|              I think,’ ‘I want,’ ‘I wish,’ ‘I like,’ ‘I dislike,’ ‘
182 Text |            I suppose I must, if you wish it.~SOCRATES: In the first
183 Text |     SOCRATES: Then, as this is your wish, I will describe the leaders;
184 Text |        easier to follow; but if you wish, let us go back to the argument.~
185 Text |             upon this, for I do not wish needlessly to discourage
186 Text |             Muses; and that when we wish to remember anything which
187 Text |           and are not ‘knowable’? I wish that you would repeat to
188 Text |   THEAETETUS: I should.~SOCRATES: I wish that you would give me a


Timaeus
    Part
189 Intro|          ancient tradition, which I wish, Critias, that you would
190 Text |          ancient tradition, which I wish, Critias, that you would
191 Text |            only an evil being would wish to undo that which is harmonious
192 Text |           possible; or as those who wish to impress figures on soft