Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 112c

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[112c]

Alcibiades
That is true.

Socrates
And I imagine that when the Athenians and Spartans and Boeotians lost their men at Tanagra,¹ and later at Coronea,² among whom your own father perished, the difference that caused their deaths and fights was solely on a question of just and unjust, was it not?

Alcibiades
That is true.

Socrates
Then are we to say that these people understand those questions, on which

1 457 B.C.

2 447 B.C.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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