Cratylus
   Part
 1 Intro|        offers an explanation;—the boy was called Astyanax (‘king
 2 Text |         more correct name for the boy than Scamandrius?~HERMOGENES:


Euthydemus
   Part
 3 Text |      teachers, are there not?~The boy assented.~And they are the
 4 Text |          he agreed.~Then, my dear boy, I said, the knowledge which


Laws
   Book
 5 2    |      Athenian. That every man and boy, slave and free, both sexes,
 6 3    |           persons; for never will boy or man, young or old, excel
 7 6    |           to every child, whether boy or girl. Let every phratria
 8 7    |           three years, whether of boy or girl, if a person strictly
 9 7    |            And of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable,
10 7    |           them. A fair time for a boy of ten years old to spend


Lysis
   Part
11 Text |       them?~No.~And therefore, my boy, if you are wise, all men
12 Text |           two boys, and I, an old boy, who would fain be one of


Meno
   Part
13 Text |        Socrates, A Slave of Meno (Boy), Anytus.~MENO: Can you
14 Text |            Not only that, my dear boy, but you may say further
15 Text |           Certainly. Come hither, boy.~SOCRATES: He is Greek,
16 Text |          will.~SOCRATES: Tell me, boy, do you know that a figure
17 Text |     figure like this is a square?~BOY: I do.~SOCRATES: And you
18 Text |           these four lines equal?~BOY: Certainly.~SOCRATES: And
19 Text |        the square are also equal?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: A square
20 Text |        square may be of any size?~BOY: Certainly.~SOCRATES: And
21 Text |           of two feet taken once?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: But since
22 Text |         there are twice two feet?~BOY: There are.~SOCRATES: Then
23 Text |      square is of twice two feet?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: And how
24 Text |          feet? count and tell me.~BOY: Four, Socrates.~SOCRATES:
25 Text |        like this the lines equal?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: And of how
26 Text |           many feet will that be?~BOY: Of eight feet.~SOCRATES:
27 Text |           feet—what will that be?~BOY: Clearly, Socrates, it will
28 Text |        that I am not teaching the boy anything, but only asking
29 Text |         in regular order. (To the Boy:) Tell me, boy, do you assert
30 Text |             To the Boy:) Tell me, boy, do you assert that a double
31 Text |           comes from double line?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: But does
32 Text |           another such line here?~BOY: Certainly.~SOCRATES: And
33 Text |      space containing eight feet?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: Let us describe
34 Text |         the figure of eight feet?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: And are
35 Text |          the figure of four feet?~BOY: True.~SOCRATES: And is
36 Text |         not that four times four?~BOY: Certainly.~SOCRATES: And
37 Text |         four times is not double?~BOY: No, indeed.~SOCRATES: But
38 Text |           SOCRATES: But how much?~BOY: Four times as much.~SOCRATES:
39 Text |        Therefore the double line, boy, has given a space, not
40 Text |           but four times as much.~BOY: True.~SOCRATES: Four times
41 Text |         are sixteen—are they not?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: What line
42 Text |         sixteen feet;—do you see?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: And the
43 Text |         made from this half line?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: Good; and
44 Text |       half the size of the other?~BOY: Certainly.~SOCRATES: Such
45 Text |           and less than that one?~BOY: Yes; I think so.~SOCRATES:
46 Text |        two feet and that of four?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: Then the
47 Text |           the other of four feet?~BOY: It ought.~SOCRATES: Try
48 Text |           me how much it will be.~BOY: Three feet.~SOCRATES: Then
49 Text |        figure of which you speak?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: But if there
50 Text |           three times three feet?~BOY: That is evident.~SOCRATES:
51 Text |           three times three feet?~BOY: Nine.~SOCRATES: And how
52 Text |       much is the double of four?~BOY: Eight.~SOCRATES: Then the
53 Text |           out of a line of three?~BOY: No.~SOCRATES: But from
54 Text |         try and show me the line.~BOY: Indeed, Socrates, I do
55 Text |   eliciting his opinion. Tell me, boy, is not this a square of
56 Text |          feet which I have drawn?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: And now
57 Text |          equal to the former one?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: And a third,
58 Text |          equal to either of them?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: Suppose
59 Text |        fill up the vacant corner?~BOY: Very good.~SOCRATES: Here,
60 Text |      there are four equal spaces?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: And how
61 Text |       this space than this other?~BOY: Four times.~SOCRATES: But
62 Text |       only, as you will remember.~BOY: True.~SOCRATES: And does
63 Text |      bisect each of these spaces?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: And are
64 Text |         which contain this space?~BOY: There are.~SOCRATES: Look
65 Text |           how much this space is.~BOY: I do not understand.~SOCRATES:
66 Text |          half of the four spaces?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: And how
67 Text |        are there in this section?~BOY: Four.~SOCRATES: And how
68 Text |   SOCRATES: And how many in this?~BOY: Two.~SOCRATES: And four
69 Text |       four is how many times two?~BOY: Twice.~SOCRATES: And this
70 Text |        space is of how many feet?~BOY: Of eight feet.~SOCRATES:
71 Text |           do you get this figure?~BOY: From this.~SOCRATES: That
72 Text |          the figure of four feet?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: And that
73 Text |           square of the diagonal?~BOY: Certainly, Socrates.~SOCRATES:


Phaedrus
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74 Text |           a time there was a fair boy, or, more properly speaking,


Philebus
   Part
75 Text |  acknowledged?~SOCRATES: When, my boy, the one does not belong
76 Text |      agree.~SOCRATES: And yet, my boy, for you are one of Philebus’
77 Text |         the argument proceeds, my boy, I dare say that the meaning


Protagoras
   Part
78 Text |         are desired. And when the boy has learned his letters


The Republic
   Book
79 3    |           he who at every age, as boy and youth and in mature


The Sophist
   Part
80 Text | possibility of falsehood. But, my boy, in the days when I was
81 Text |          in the days when I was a boy, the great Parmenides protested


The Statesman
   Part
82 Text |           true.~STRANGER: Yes, my boy, but that is not all; for


The Symposium
   Part
83 Text |         him.~Go and look for him, boy, said Agathon, and bring


Theaetetus
   Part
84 Intro|   admissions which were made by a boy, who could not foresee the
85 Intro|     against him with the aid of a boy? He meant to intimate that
86 Text |          Euclid.~EUCLID: And now, boy, you may take the roll and
87 Text |           best.~SOCRATES: Yes, my boy, and so do I; and my desire
88 Text |           SOCRATES: Bravely said, boy; that is the way in which
89 Text |         spoken like an oracle, my boy! And if you reply ‘Yes,’
90 Text |        mortals.~SOCRATES: Yes, my boy, outer barbarians. Far more
91 Text |            SOCRATES: But then, my boy, how can any one contend
92 Text |            SOCRATES: Why, my dear boy, you are young, and therefore
93 Text |           Socrates asked a little boy, whether the same man could
94 Text |           the same thing, and the boy said No, because he was
95 Text |       reproached us with making a boy the medium of discourse,
96 Text |      discourse, and said that the boy’s timidity was made to tell
97 Text |          with.’~SOCRATES: Yes, my boy, for no one can suppose
98 Text |        question?~SOCRATES: If, my boy, the argument, in speaking