The Apology
   Part
 1 Intro|         guilty of the impiety of asking the judge to break his oath,
 2 Text |         to be something wrong in asking a favour of a judge, and
 3 Text |         conversing with them and asking them questions! In another
 4 Text |       not put a man to death for asking questions: assuredly not.


Charmides
   Part
 5 Text |         quality about which I am asking or not; and then you will
 6 Text |       that I had better begin by asking you a question; for if temperance
 7 Text |      Socrates, he said. You come asking in what wisdom or temperance


Cratylus
   Part
 8 Intro|       names about which you were asking. The way to analyze them
 9 Text |          about which you are now asking should turn out to be primary
10 Text | retention), about which you were asking; and we may see whether
11 Text |        seek the true beauty: not asking whether a face is fair,


Critias
   Part
12 Text |         favour, if I am right in asking, I hope that you will be


Crito
   Part
13 Text |          you are in the habit of asking and answering questions.


Euthydemus
   Part
14 Text |      heighten the effect went on asking another similar question,
15 Text |        not ashamed, Socrates, of asking a question when you are
16 Text |         do not know what you are asking, you tell me to answer nevertheless,
17 Text |           for you will insist on asking—that I pretty well know—


Euthyphro
   Part
18 Intro|           piety is ‘a science of asking and giving’—asking what
19 Intro|    science of asking and giving’—asking what we want and giving
20 Intro|          a science of giving and asking, and the like. Socrates
21 Text |          the gods, and prayer is asking of the gods?~EUTHYPHRO:
22 Text |      then, piety is a science of asking and giving?~EUTHYPHRO: You
23 Text |          Is not the right way of asking to ask of them what we want?~


The First Alcibiades
   Part
24 Text |         you mean?~SOCRATES: I am asking if you ever knew any one


Gorgias
   Part
25 Intro|       Socrates only, are eagerly asking:—About what then will rhetoric
26 Intro|    Socrates concludes by finally asking, to which of the two modes
27 Intro|     argument; and not less so in asking questions which were beyond
28 Text | CALLICLES: There is nothing like asking him, Socrates; and indeed
29 Text |      observe, that I am right in asking this further question: If
30 Text |         should I not be right in asking, ‘What kind of figures,
31 Text |     SOCRATES: And the reason for asking this second question would
32 Text |          I would rather begin by asking, whether he is or is not
33 Text |         of a speech?~POLUS: I am asking a question.~SOCRATES: Then
34 Text |          opinion of your own, or asking a question of me.~POLUS:
35 Text |      question of me.~POLUS: I am asking a question of you.~SOCRATES:
36 Text |        therefore I will begin by asking you whether you do not think


Laches
   Part
37 Intro|      question, may be settled by asking, ‘What do the Lacedaemonians
38 Text |         There will be no harm in asking ourselves the question which
39 Text |        true.~SOCRATES: Now I was asking about courage and cowardice


Laws
   Book
40 1    |           You are quite right in asking the question, for there
41 1    |       now and let us all join in asking this question of Tyrtaeus:
42 1    |      more clearly: what I am now asking is this—Does the drinking
43 7    |      compete with one another in asking questions, which will be


Lysis
   Part
44 Intro|        children, and consists in asking a leading question which


Meno
   Part
45 Text |        in my way of speaking, by asking whether you would say that
46 Text |       the boy anything, but only asking him questions; and now he
47 Text |      certain truth until, before asking how virtue is given, we


Phaedo
   Part
48 Text |     about whom you were just now asking, affirm when he was staying


Phaedrus
   Part
49 Intro|          us, or rather is he not asking of us, Whether we have ceased


Philebus
   Part
50 Intro|        philosophers were fond of asking, in the language of their
51 Text |   SOCRATES: Philebus is right in asking that question of us, Protarchus.~
52 Text |  Protarchus and I have been long asking.~SOCRATES: Assuredly you
53 Text |       say, you have been so long asking?~PHILEBUS: How so?~SOCRATES:
54 Text |       understood him rightly, is asking whether there are not kinds
55 Text |         not perplex us, and keep asking questions of us to which
56 Text |       begin then, Protarchus, by asking a question.~PROTARCHUS:
57 Text |           is this question worth asking?~PROTARCHUS: What question?~
58 Text |   question which the argument is asking.~SOCRATES: And how, Protarchus,


Protagoras
   Part
59 Intro|      when Protagoras is tired of asking he himself will ask and
60 Intro| Protagoras in a different order, asking (1) What virtue is, and (
61 Text |      young man and to me, who am asking questions on his account.
62 Text |       question about which I was asking you at first, Protagoras,
63 Text |       have any other interest in asking questions of you but that
64 Text |        the questions which I was asking you at first, and also to
65 Text |       wisdom. You might begin by asking whether the strong are able,


The Republic
   Book
66 1    |      Proceed. ~I will proceed by asking a question: Would you not
67 2    |          likeness of a priestess asking an alms ~"For the life-giving
68 5    |        to find a common basis by asking of ourselves what ought
69 6    |       their own want of skill in asking and answering questions;
70 6    |          arrived at the point of asking why are the majority bad,
71 6    |       that we shall refrain from asking you what is this highest
72 7    |     attain the greatest skill in asking and answering questions? ~


The Second Alcibiades
   Part
73 Text |      himself, deeming that he is asking for good, especially if
74 Text |       nor thought that they were asking evil. He neither sought,
75 Text |        under the idea that he is asking for good, when shortly after
76 Text |          supposing that you were asking for good?~ALCIBIADES: I


The Sophist
   Part
77 Text |      very question which we were asking our friend before we came
78 Text |        STRANGER: Let us begin by asking whether he is a man having
79 Text |           he will say that he is asking about an idea.~THEAETETUS:
80 Text |          which we ourselves were asking of those who said that all


The Statesman
   Part
81 Intro|          answer that question by asking you whether the training


The Symposium
   Part
82 Intro|     voice of Alcibiades is heard asking for Agathon. He is led in


Theaetetus
   Part
83 Intro|    described in the Memorabilia, asking What is justice? what is
84 Intro|  conversing.’~Socrates begins by asking Theodorus whether, in his
85 Intro|           and Socrates begins by asking him what he learns of Theodorus.
86 Intro|     world is full of men who are asking to be taught and willing
87 Intro|         out of himself. Weary of asking ‘What is truth?’ it accepts
88 Intro|     lifelong study, without ever asking themselves what is the evidence
89 Intro|    existence. There is no use in asking what is beyond or behind
90 Text |        diverse things, when I am asking for one simple thing.~THEAETETUS:
91 Text |          a question, and quietly asking and answering in turn, they
92 Text |        there were any meaning in asking whether sounds and colours
93 Text |         about which we were just asking—what organs will you assign
94 Text |      that is precisely what I am asking.~THEAETETUS: Indeed, Socrates,
95 Text |         to me to be just talking—asking questions of herself and
96 Text |           That was my reason for asking how we ought to speak when
97 Text |     utterly foolish, when we are asking what is knowledge, that


Timaeus
   Part
98 Text |          assuming the name, I am asking a question which has to