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380 BC

PROTAGORAS

by Plato

translated by Benjamin Jowett

PROTAGORAS

PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: SOCRATES, who is the narrator of the

Dialogue to his Companion; HIPPOCRATES; ALCIBIADES; CRINAS;

PROTAGORAS, HIPPIAS, PRODICUS, Sophists; CALLIAS, a wealthy

Athenian. Scene: The House of Callias



Com. Where do you come from, Socrates? And yet I need hardly ask the

question, for I know that you have been in chase of the fair

Alcibiades. I saw the day before yesterday; and he had got a beard

like a man-and he is a man, as I may tell you in your ear. But I

thought that he was still very charming.

Soc. What of his beard? Are you not of Homer's opinion, who says



Youth is most charming when the beard first appears?



And that is now the charm of Alcibiades.

Com. Well, and how do matters proceed? Have you been visiting him,

and was he gracious to you?

Soc. Yes, I thought that he was very gracious; and especially

to-day, for I have just come from him, and he has been helping me in

an argument. But shall I tell you a strange thing? I paid no attention