Plato, Laches, section 195a

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[195a] either in war or in anything else.

Laches
How strangely he talks, Socrates!

Socrates
What is it that makes you say that, Laches?

Laches
What is it? Why, surely wisdom is distinct from courage.

Socrates
Well, Nicias denies that.

Laches
He does indeed, to be sure: that is where he just babbles.

Socrates
Then let us instruct and not abuse him.

Nicias
No, it seems to me, Socrates, that Laches wants to have it proved that I am talking nonsense, because he was proved

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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