Plato, Laches, section 184e

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[184e] Suppose you had a consultation as to what your son's exercise should be for a coming contest, would you be guided by the majority of us, or by the one who happened to have trained and exercised under a good master?

Melesias
By the latter, naturally, Socrates.

Socrates
Would you be guided by him alone rather than the four of us?

Melesias
Very likely.

Socrates
Yes, for a question must be decided by knowledge, and not by numbers, if it is to have a right decision.

Melesias
To be sure.

Socrates
Then in this case also we must first consider, in particular,

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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