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Charmides
    Part
  1 Intro|               why the Charmides, Lysis, Laches have been placed together
  2 Intro|               and the Lysis, if not the Laches, are of the same ‘quality’
  3 Intro|              dialogues of the Lysis and Laches; and also in the Protagoras


Cratylus
    Part
  4 Intro|                in the Lysis, Charmides, Laches, Protagoras, Meno, we arrived


Euthydemus
    Part
  5 Intro|                in the Charmides, Lysis, Laches, Protagoras, Meno, Euthyphro,
  6 Intro|                  like Lysimachus in the Laches, his fellow demesman (Apol.),


Euthyphro
    Part
  7 Intro|        definition of his own: as in the Laches and Lysis, he prepares the
  8 Intro|                in the Charmides, Lysis, Laches, Protagoras, and other Dialogues;


The First Alcibiades
    Part
  9 Intro|                which occurs also in the Laches and Protagoras, that great


Laches
    Part
 10 -    |                                         Laches~
 11 Intro|               their request, Nicias and Laches have accompanied them to
 12 Intro|              accomplishment. Nicias and Laches are quite willing to give
 13 Intro|               tutor for his son, and to Laches, who had witnessed his heroic
 14 Intro|           younger than either Nicias or Laches, prefers to wait until they
 15 Intro|               the soldier in the field. Laches, the blunt warrior, is of
 16 Intro|                anything. But Nicias and Laches are older and richer than
 17 Intro|          submitted to this process; and Laches is quite willing to learn
 18 Intro|              weapons—‘What is Courage?’ Laches thinks that he knows this: (
 19 Intro|               amid pleasures and pains. Laches replies that this universal
 20 Intro|                 be solved? Socrates and Laches are not set ‘to the Dorian
 21 Intro|               argument about endurance. Laches is very willing, and is
 22 Intro|               Courage is intelligence.’ Laches derides this; and Socrates
 23 Intro|          courageous man can tell that.’ Laches draws the inference that
 24 Intro|                ordinary use of language Laches reclaims, but is in some
 25 Intro|               difference, appear in the Laches when compared with the Charmides
 26 Intro|             externals of the scene; the Laches has more play and development
 27 Intro|                characters of Nicias and Laches are indicated by their opinions
 28 Intro|               accept the new art, which Laches treats with ridicule, seeming
 29 Intro|            acquainted with his actions. Laches is the admirer of the Dorian
 30 Intro|                 not without difficulty, Laches is made to pass on from
 31 Intro| cross-examination which is practised by Laches and by Socrates, and also
 32 Intro|                 which the definition of Laches is made to approximate to
 33 Intro|            based on a natural instinct. Laches exhibits one aspect of courage;
 34 Intro|            battle of Mantinea, at which Laches fell. But if Socrates was
 35 Text |                                         LACHES, OR COURAGE~PERSONS OF THE
 36 Text |         Thucydides. Their sons. Nicias, Laches, Socrates.~LYSIMACHUS: You
 37 Text |          fighting in armour, Nicias and Laches, but we did not tell you
 38 Text |               will tell you, Nicias and Laches, even at the risk of being
 39 Text |                 and I believe that you, Laches, will be equally glad.~LACHES:
 40 Text |           Laches, will be equally glad.~LACHES: Certainly, Nicias; and
 41 Text |                 after.~LYSIMACHUS: Why, Laches, has Socrates ever attended
 42 Text |                to matters of this sort?~LACHES: Certainly, Lysimachus.~
 43 Text |             means of knowing as well as Laches; for quite lately he supplied
 44 Text |                 Socrates and Nicias and Laches, fall out of acquaintance
 45 Text |              family ties being renewed.~LACHES: Indeed, Lysimachus, you
 46 Text |                 which I have given. But Laches may take a different view;
 47 Text |                hear what he has to say.~LACHES: I should not like to maintain,
 48 Text |              have been required. But as Laches has voted one way and Nicias
 49 Text |               us has had good teachers?~LACHES: Well but, Socrates; did
 50 Text |             some things?~SOCRATES: Yes, Laches, I have observed that; but
 51 Text |        excellence in one or more works.~LACHES: That is true.~SOCRATES:
 52 Text |                SOCRATES: And therefore, Laches and Nicias, as Lysimachus
 53 Text |               be surprised if Nicias or Laches may have discovered or learned
 54 Text |               therefore, Lysimachus, as Laches suggested that you should
 55 Text |                and advise you to detain Laches and Nicias, and question
 56 Text |          anything of the kind. But you, Laches and Nicias, should each
 57 Text |            friends; but you, Nicias and Laches, must determine whether
 58 Text |               had better ask our friend Laches what his feeling may be.~
 59 Text |                what his feeling may be.~LACHES: I have but one feeling,
 60 Text |                find out from Nicias and Laches what we want to know, for
 61 Text |            SOCRATES: Let us, Nicias and Laches, comply with the request
 62 Text |              sight and hearing to them.~LACHES: That is true, Socrates.~
 63 Text |                are not our two friends, Laches, at this very moment inviting
 64 Text |             improvement of their minds?~LACHES: Very true.~SOCRATES: Then
 65 Text |                 we are wholly ignorant?~LACHES: I do not think that we
 66 Text |               Socrates.~SOCRATES: Then, Laches, we may presume that we
 67 Text |              know the nature of virtue?~LACHES: Yes.~SOCRATES: And that
 68 Text |                 surely be able to tell?~LACHES: Certainly.~SOCRATES: I
 69 Text |          probably be made easier to us.~LACHES: Let us do as you say, Socrates.~
 70 Text |        generally thought to be courage?~LACHES: Yes, certainly.~SOCRATES:
 71 Text |              certainly.~SOCRATES: Then, Laches, suppose that we first set
 72 Text |               you can, what is courage.~LACHES: Indeed, Socrates, I see
 73 Text |              that.~SOCRATES: Very good, Laches; and yet I fear that I did
 74 Text |           intended to ask, but another.~LACHES: What do you mean, Socrates?~
 75 Text |              and fights with the enemy?~LACHES: Certainly I should.~SOCRATES:
 76 Text |           flying, instead of remaining?~LACHES: How flying?~SOCRATES: Why,
 77 Text |              author of fear or flight.’~LACHES: Yes, Socrates, and there
 78 Text |                rank.~SOCRATES: And yet, Laches, you must except the Lacedaemonians
 79 Text |              won the battle of Plataea.~LACHES: That is true.~SOCRATES:
 80 Text |                of courage—is there not, Laches?~LACHES: Certainly, Socrates.~
 81 Text |           courage—is there not, Laches?~LACHES: Certainly, Socrates.~SOCRATES:
 82 Text |        conditions, as I should imagine.~LACHES: Very true.~SOCRATES: Now
 83 Text |                 understand what I mean?~LACHES: Not over well.~SOCRATES:
 84 Text |               quickness to all of them?~LACHES: Quite true.~SOCRATES: And
 85 Text |               any other sort of action.~LACHES: You would be quite correct.~
 86 Text |             correct.~SOCRATES: And now, Laches, do you try and tell me
 87 Text |                 was just now referring?~LACHES: I should say that courage
 88 Text |              Hear my reason: I am sure, Laches, that you would consider
 89 Text |                be a very noble quality.~LACHES: Most noble, certainly.~
 90 Text |                 is also good and noble?~LACHES: Very noble.~SOCRATES: But
 91 Text |           regarded as evil and hurtful?~LACHES: True.~SOCRATES: And is
 92 Text |              which is evil and hurtful?~LACHES: I ought not to say that,
 93 Text |            noble, but courage is noble?~LACHES: You are right.~SOCRATES:
 94 Text |              wise endurance is courage?~LACHES: True.~SOCRATES: But as
 95 Text |                you call him courageous?~LACHES: Assuredly not.~SOCRATES:
 96 Text |               refuses; is that courage?~LACHES: No; that is not courage
 97 Text |                his post, is the braver?~LACHES: I should say that the latter,
 98 Text |              comparison with the other?~LACHES: That is true.~SOCRATES:
 99 Text |               having no such knowledge?~LACHES: So I should say.~SOCRATES:
100 Text |                having such a knowledge?~LACHES: True.~SOCRATES: And he
101 Text |                who have this knowledge?~LACHES: Why, Socrates, what else
102 Text |                 that be what he thinks.~LACHES: But that is what I do think.~
103 Text |                 and endure are foolish, Laches, in comparison of those
104 Text |            having the skill to do them.~LACHES: That is true.~SOCRATES:
105 Text |                 base and hurtful to us.~LACHES: Quite true.~SOCRATES: Whereas
106 Text |     acknowledged to be a noble quality.~LACHES: True.~SOCRATES: And now
107 Text |               in dishonour, is courage.~LACHES: Very true.~SOCRATES: And
108 Text |              are we right in saying so?~LACHES: Indeed, Socrates, I am
109 Text |              your statement, you and I, Laches, are not attuned to the
110 Text |                 about courage just now.~LACHES: That is most true.~SOCRATES:
111 Text |         condition of ours satisfactory?~LACHES: Quite the reverse.~SOCRATES:
112 Text |           speaking to a certain extent.~LACHES: To what extent and what
113 Text |              very likely, be endurance.~LACHES: I am ready to go on, Socrates;
114 Text |                 track, and not be lazy?~LACHES: Certainly, he should.~SOCRATES:
115 Text |                we are. What do you say?~LACHES: I should like that.~SOCRATES:
116 Text |                  Socrates, that you and Laches are not defining courage
117 Text |              SOCRATES: Do you hear him, Laches?~LACHES: Yes, I hear him,
118 Text |                Do you hear him, Laches?~LACHES: Yes, I hear him, but I
119 Text |            courage is a sort of wisdom.~LACHES: What can he possibly mean,
120 Text |                you must ask of himself.~LACHES: Yes.~SOCRATES: Tell him
121 Text |            knowledge then, and of what?~LACHES: I think that you put the
122 Text |                  NICIAS: I mean to say, Laches, that courage is the knowledge
123 Text |                 in war, or in anything.~LACHES: How strangely he is talking,
124 Text |            SOCRATES: Why do you say so, Laches?~LACHES: Why, surely courage
125 Text |              Why do you say so, Laches?~LACHES: Why, surely courage is
126 Text |                just what Nicias denies.~LACHES: Yes, that is what he denies;
127 Text |                 of abusing him?~NICIAS: Laches does not want to instruct
128 Text |               have been doing the same.~LACHES: Very true, Nicias; and
129 Text |         courageous?~NICIAS: Not at all.~LACHES: No more than the husbandmen
130 Text |                 that.~SOCRATES: What is Laches saying, Nicias? He appears
131 Text |              than this. Do you imagine, Laches, that the physician knows
132 Text |               be the better of the two?~LACHES: Yes certainly so in my
133 Text |              those who had better live?~LACHES: Certainly not.~NICIAS:
134 Text |                 understand his meaning, Laches?~LACHES: Yes; I suppose
135 Text |         understand his meaning, Laches?~LACHES: Yes; I suppose that, in
136 Text |                grounds of hope or fear?~LACHES: Indeed I do: who but he?~
137 Text |               one who is no soothsayer.~LACHES: I cannot understand what
138 Text |                 I quite agree with you, Laches, that he should not. But
139 Text |              not, we will instruct him.~LACHES: Do you, Socrates, if you
140 Text |                 will do for both of us.~LACHES: Very good.~SOCRATES: Then
141 Text |                  or rather tell us, for Laches and I are partners in the
142 Text |                 pretensions to courage.~LACHES: Capital, Socrates; by the
143 Text |             their courage.~NICIAS: Why, Laches, I do not call animals or
144 Text |               actions are wise actions.~LACHES: Behold, Socrates, how admirably,
145 Text |             courageous.~NICIAS: Not so, Laches, but do not be alarmed;
146 Text |          courageous and therefore wise.~LACHES: I could answer that; but
147 Text |            SOCRATES: Do not answer him, Laches; I rather fancy that you
148 Text |           pieces of words of this sort.~LACHES: Yes, Socrates; and the
149 Text |               is worthy of examination.~LACHES: Then examine for yourself,
150 Text |          consideration of the question.~LACHES: I will if you think that
151 Text |               Do you not agree to that, Laches?~LACHES: Yes, Socrates,
152 Text |              not agree to that, Laches?~LACHES: Yes, Socrates, entirely.~
153 Text |              see whether you agree with Laches and myself as to a third
154 Text |               not correct in saying so, Laches?~LACHES: Quite correct.~
155 Text |           correct in saying so, Laches?~LACHES: Quite correct.~SOCRATES:
156 Text |                is.~NICIAS: We have not.~LACHES: And yet, friend Nicias,
157 Text |              Damon.~NICIAS: I perceive, Laches, that you think nothing
158 Text |              much in want of knowledge.~LACHES: You are a philosopher,
159 Text |              knowledge which Nicias and Laches have not, then I admit that


Lysis
    Part
160 Intro|                which also recurs in the Laches; and Socrates appears again
161 Intro|               Charmides, as also in the Laches, he is described as middleaged;
162 Intro|                 as in the Charmides and Laches, and several of the other
163 Intro|                 as in the Charmides and Laches by the introduction of the


Meno
    Part
164 Intro|             replies here, as elsewhere (Laches, Prot.), that Themistocles,
165 Intro|                in the Lysis, Charmides, Laches, to the transcendentalism
166 Intro|                 discussed in the Lysis, Laches, Charmides, and Protagoras;


Protagoras
    Part
167 Intro|            Republic, and already in the Laches) an extreme disregard of
168 Intro|               Dialogues. The Charmides, Laches, Lysis, all touch on the


The Symposium
    Part
169 Text |     comparatively out of danger. He and Laches were retreating, for the
170 Text |         observed how superior he was to Laches in presence of mind. Many


Theaetetus
    Part
171 Intro|             with the Protagoras and the Laches.~But when we pass from the
172 Intro|          committed to his charge in the Laches, may be remarked by the
173 Intro|           already noticed in the Lysis, Laches, Meno, and other dialogues.
174 Intro|           definitions of courage in the Laches, or of friendship in the
175 Intro|             truth is divided, as in the Laches and Protagoras, and the