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Socrates
Well, will you put that question to your friend here?Laches
I do.Socrates
Come now, tell him, Nicias, what kind of wisdom courage may be, by your account. Not that, I presume, of flute-playing.Nicias
Not at all.Socrates
Nor yet that of harping.Nicias
Oh, no.Socrates
But what is this knowledge then, or of what?Laches
I must say you question him quite correctly, Socrates, so let him just tell us what he thinks it is.Nicias
I say, Laches, that it is this—the knowledge of what is to be dreaded or dared,
Well, will you put that question to your friend here?Laches
I do.Socrates
Come now, tell him, Nicias, what kind of wisdom courage may be, by your account. Not that, I presume, of flute-playing.Nicias
Not at all.Socrates
Nor yet that of harping.Nicias
Oh, no.Socrates
But what is this knowledge then, or of what?Laches
I must say you question him quite correctly, Socrates, so let him just tell us what he thinks it is.Nicias
I say, Laches, that it is this—the knowledge of what is to be dreaded or dared,
