Plato, Laches, section 191a

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[191a]

Socrates
I will explain, so far as I can: let us take that man to be courageous who, as you describe him yourself, stays at his post and fights the enemy.

Laches
I, for one, agree to that.

Socrates
Yes, and I do too. But what of this other kind of man, who fights the enemy while fleeing, and not staying?

Laches
How fleeing?

Socrates
Well, as the Scythians are said to fight, as much fleeing as pursuing; and as you know Homer says in praise of Aeneas' horses, that they knew ““how to pursue and to flee in fright full swiftly this way and that way;””Hom. Il. 8.107-108

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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