Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 113a

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[113a]

Socrates
Then is it I, the questioner, or you the answerer, that are found to be speaking about these things?

Alcibiades
I.

Socrates
And what if I ask what are the letters in “Socrates,” and you tell me? Which will be the speaker?

Alcibiades
I.

Socrates
Come then, tell me, as a principle, when we have question and answer, which is the speaker—the questioner, or the answerer?

Alcibiades
The answerer, I should say, Socrates.

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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