The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|            here.~He then goes on to explain the reason why he is in
  2 Text |             and I will endeavour to explain to you the reason why I
  3 Text |         this? Because I am going to explain to you why I have such an
  4 Text |            and thereupon I tried to explain to him that he thought himself


Charmides
    Part
  5 PreF |             work.~I have further to explain how far I have received
  6 PreS |          hopeless is the attempt to explain Plato out of the writings
  7 Text |         escape, Socrates?—(I should explain that an engagement had taken
  8 Text |             shall be better able to explain the nature of the charm,


Cratylus
    Part
  9 Intro|         Hermogenes asks Socrates to explain to him what Cratylus means;
 10 Intro|             inside out. ‘How do you explain pur n udor?’ I suspect that
 11 Intro|          justice, and the rest?’ To explain all that will be a serious
 12 Intro|             or kinesis. (I ought to explain that kinesis is just iesis (
 13 Intro|             replies ‘that he cannot explain so important a subject all
 14 Intro|            by them. But they do not explain why, in man and in man only,
 15 Intro|       tended rather to obscure than explain the subject to which it
 16 Intro|          composition is required to explain some new idea to a popular
 17 Text |        please.~HERMOGENES: I should explain to you, Socrates, that our
 18 Text |       SOCRATES: I will endeavour to explain, for I do not believe that
 19 Text |     SOCRATES: I am at a loss how to explain pur; either the muse of
 20 Text |           next place, how you would explain the virtues. What principle
 21 Text |             SOCRATES: I will try to explain. You are aware that our
 22 Text |         cheerfulness) and epithumia explain themselves; the former,
 23 Text |            that you can learn, or I explain, any subject of importance
 24 Text |             like other arts? Let me explain what I mean: of painters,


Critias
    Part
 25 Intro|   adversaries, but first I ought to explain that the Greek names were


Euthydemus
    Part
 26 Text |             did not know, wanted to explain to you that the word ‘to
 27 Text |         this of yours! and will you explain how I possess that knowledge


Euthyphro
    Part
 28 Text |           examples of piety, but to explain the general idea which makes
 29 Text |       SOCRATES: I will endeavour to explain: we, speak of carrying and
 30 Text |             But you still refuse to explain to me the nature of holiness.
 31 Text | understanding me. What I mean I may explain by an illustration of what


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 32 Text |            of which I will some day explain to you the nature; this
 33 Text |           then, consider and try to explain what is the meaning of ‘
 34 Text |          was that?~SOCRATES: Let me explain. Suppose I were to ask you
 35 Text |           you to say why you do not explain whether justice and expediency
 36 Text |     SOCRATES: I wish that you would explain to me what this something
 37 Text |          you mean?~SOCRATES: I will explain; the shoemaker, for example,
 38 Text |           but I wish that you would explain to me in what way I am to


Gorgias
    Part
 39 Intro|              but before he can even explain his meaning to Polus, he
 40 Intro|            men, but he is unable to explain the puzzle how rhetoric
 41 Intro|          general. How would Gorgias explain this phenomenon? All who
 42 Intro|             Polus; and, in order to explain his meaning to them, Socrates
 43 Text |         what? I wish that you would explain to me.~SOCRATES: An experience
 44 Text |        GORGIAS: Never mind him, but explain to me what you mean by saying
 45 Text |      SOCRATES: I will try, then, to explain my notion of rhetoric, and
 46 Text |             now I will endeavour to explain to you more clearly what
 47 Text |             because it is unable to explain or to give a reason of the
 48 Text |          not.~SOCRATES: Then I will explain myself more clearly: seeing


Ion
    Part
 49 Intro|             distinctions; he cannot explain the nature of his own art;
 50 Text |          them. Would you like me to explain my meaning, Ion?~ION: Yes,
 51 Text |          Ion; and I will proceed to explain to you what I imagine to
 52 Text |             my repeated entreaties, explain to me the nature of it.


Laches
    Part
 53 Text |       SOCRATES: I will endeavour to explain; you would call a man courageous
 54 Text |              Let us ask him just to explain what he means, and if he


Laws
    Book
 55 1    |           Will you allow me then to explain how I should have liked
 56 1    |           Stranger, by this remark? Explain; For we, as you say, from
 57 1    |         follow. I will endeavour to explain my meaning more clearly:
 58 3    |              for that will probably explain the first origin and development
 59 6    |           shall fill up. And I will explain on what principle you are
 60 7    |        strange, I will endeavour to explain to you.~Cleinias. By all
 61 7    |            Cleinias. What?—will you explain the law more precisely?~
 62 7    |        leave nothing to him, but to explain everything, that he may
 63 7    |             not till then, we shall explain clearly what has been said,
 64 7    |           us. And now do you try to explain to us your whole meaning,
 65 7    |             my youth, and yet I can explain them to you in a brief space
 66 7    |            we are ignorant? Try and explain the nature of it to us as
 67 8    |         likely; I will endeavour to explain myself more clearly. When
 68 9    |            you are to guard we will explain to you. When any such thought
 69 9    |       Athenian. I will endeavour to explain. If I am not mistaken, we
 70 10   |           is that?~Athenian. I will explain my meaning still more clearly.
 71 10   |            How so?~Athenian. I will explain:—When the king saw that
 72 12   |            way. Let me endeavour to explain my meaning by an ancient


Lysis
    Part
 73 Text |             which I will proceed to explain: Medicine, as we were saying,


Meno
    Part
 74 Intro|           intended to supplement or explain each other. They relate
 75 Text |      SOCRATES: Well, I will try and explain to you what figure is. What
 76 Text |             I suspect, that you may explain in the same way the nature
 77 Text |             not suppose that we can explain to any one the nature of
 78 Text |           will the whole be? Let me explain: if in one direction the
 79 Text |            right’?~SOCRATES: I will explain. If a man knew the way to
 80 Text |       differ.~SOCRATES: And shall I explain this wonder to you?~MENO:


Parmenides
    Part
 81 Intro|       dialogue. He then proceeds to explain to him the sort of mental


Phaedo
    Part
 82 Intro|            them. They could neither explain the relation of ideas to
 83 Intro|           the best’ he is unable to explain; and therefore takes refuge
 84 Text |          Cebes, I will endeavour to explain. For I deem that the true
 85 Text |           true, he would proceed to explain the cause and the necessity
 86 Text |            centre, he would further explain that this position was the
 87 Text |            stars, and that he would explain to me their comparative
 88 Text |           of all, he would go on to explain to me what was best for
 89 Text |              when he endeavoured to explain the causes of my several
 90 Text |        untrue. But I should like to explain my meaning more clearly,


Phaedrus
    Part
 91 Intro|           by them; and he sought to explain this, as he explained universal
 92 Text |            him. I will endeavour to explain to you in what way the mortal
 93 Text |           not understand and cannot explain his own state; he appears
 94 Text |        understand you; but will you explain yourself?~SOCRATES: When
 95 Text |          art of speaking.~PHAEDRUS: Explain.~SOCRATES: Rhetoric is like
 96 Text |          Exactly.~SOCRATES: He will explain, secondly, the mode in which


Philebus
    Part
 97 Intro|        Plato has not told us; or to explain, from our fragmentary knowledge
 98 Intro| associations be attached. We cannot explain them adequately on principles
 99 Text |            PROTARCHUS: If you would explain to me a little more about
100 Text |             ridiculous.~PROTARCHUS: Explain.~SOCRATES: The ridiculous
101 Text |         they mean?~SOCRATES: I will explain to you, my dear Protarchus,


Protagoras
    Part
102 Text |            purpose? he said.~I must explain, I said, that my friend
103 Text |           in a different way—I will explain how by an example. Let me
104 Text |         that Protagoras will easily explain, as he has already explained
105 Text |           said, I will endeavour to explain to you my opinion about
106 Text |             would beg Protagoras to explain to us how he can be right


The Republic
    Book
107 1    |        understand, he said. ~Let me explain: Can you see, except with
108 3    |          cast off? he said. ~I will explain to you, he replied. A resolution
109 3    |             That I will endeavor to explain, I replied. To keep watchdogs,
110 5    |            of our escaping, we must explain to them whom we mean when
111 6    |           no honor in their cities; explain it to him and try to convince
112 6    |          said. ~I will see if I can explain them to you. Everyone will
113 6    |          too that the latter cannot explain what they mean by knowledge,
114 7    |      providence of others; we shall explain to them that in other States,
115 7    |             toward being. ~Will you explain your meaning? he said. ~
116 7    |            I suspect, one of them. ~Explain, he said. ~I mean to say
117 9    |          the greatest; but will you explain yourself? ~I will work out
118 10   |             only antidote to them. ~Explain the purport of your remark. ~
119 10   |           What do you mean? ~I will explain: The body which is large


The Sophist
    Part
120 Intro|         thought to be three; but to explain the difference fully would
121 Intro|            But how could philosophy explain the connexion of ideas,
122 Intro|   recommended to look within and to explain how opposite ideas can coexist
123 Intro|            him. He has done more to explain Greek thought than all other
124 Text |           subject which you want to explain to another, or to proceed
125 Text |             will still more clearly explain his nature.~THEAETETUS:


The Statesman
    Part
126 Intro|             seem to be lost, I must explain the whole nature of excess
127 Intro|     government without law.’~I must explain: Law-making certainly is
128 Intro|            condition of man.~I will explain my meaning by an illustration:—
129 Text |          cannot at present entirely explain myself, I will try, as we
130 Text |          just now speaking. Shall I explain the nature of what I call
131 Text |            classes.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Explain; what are they?~STRANGER:
132 Text |              I wonder whether I can explain to you in words the thought


The Symposium
    Part
133 Text |            to be seen; and I had to explain that he had been with me
134 Text |        together; yet they could not explain what they desire of one
135 Text |             they would be unable to explain. And suppose further, that
136 Text |            nothing? And here I must explain myself: I do not want you
137 Text |          out of curiosity (I should explain that this was not in winter


Theaetetus
    Part
138 Intro|          explained them. And I must explain them now. The verb ‘to know’
139 Intro|        arises out of our attempt to explain false opinion without having
140 Intro|             know but not be able to explain;’ and many other ways may
141 Intro|          Another attempt is made to explain false opinion by assigning
142 Intro|            facts.~Three attempts to explain the new definition of knowledge
143 Intro|         century, when men sought to explain the human mind without regard
144 Intro|        popular opinion. It seeks to explain from the experience of the
145 Text |         will endeavour, however, to explain what I believe to be my
146 Text |          instance will sufficiently explain my meaning: Here are six
147 Text |        SOCRATES: Then I will try to explain myself: just now we asked
148 Text |       paradoxes than these. Shall I explain this matter to you or to
149 Text |           meaning of them as I will explain them. Remember what has
150 Text |           we not understand them to explain the generation of heat,
151 Text |         SOCRATES: Let us attempt to explain the verb ‘to know.’~THEAETETUS:
152 Text |          the moment.~SOCRATES: They explain the word ‘to know’ as meaning ‘
153 Text |             his thought, is said to explain himself.~SOCRATES: And every
154 Text |       SOCRATES: I will endeavour to explain: I will suppose myself to


Timaeus
    Part
155 Intro|         advantage.’ Then now let me explain to you the order of our
156 Intro|            and good.~And now I will explain to you the generation of
157 Intro|            sensation. But we cannot explain sensation without explaining
158 Intro|         experience. He was ready to explain the phenomena of the heavens
159 Intro|             attempting to define or explain the first God in the Platonic
160 Intro|         created? It is difficult to explain a process of thought so
161 Intro|            figures. But he does not explain the process by which surfaces
162 Intro|             truth begins; we cannot explain (nor could Plato himself
163 Intro|           of the same.’ He does not explain how man is acted upon by
164 Intro|             The writer is unable to explain particular passages in any
165 Text |          CRITIAS: Let me proceed to explain to you, Socrates, the order
166 Text |             make another attempt to explain my meaning more clearly.
167 Text |            side.~Now is the time to explain what was before obscurely
168 Text |        which we will now proceed to explain. In the revolution of the
169 Text |      without the former: and yet to explain them together is hardly
170 Text |           any one who sees them can explain the reason of them to another.