Plato, Laches, section 197c

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[197c] which I speak of that are courageous.

Laches
Mark you, Socrates, how finely, as he fancies, my friend decks himself out with his words! And how he attempts to deprive of the distinction of courage those whom everyone admits to be courageous!

Nicias
I am not referring to you, Laches, so do not be fiightened: for I grant that you, and Lamachus also, are wise, since you are courageous, and I say the same of numerous other Athenians.

Laches
I will not say what I could say in answer to that, lest you call me a true son of Aexone.¹

1 A deme or district of Attica, noted for the abusive wit of its people.

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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