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Suppose I want to buy something, am I not even then to ask the price if the seller is under thirty?
Oh yes, answered Charicles, you may in such cases. But the fact is, Socrates, you are in the habit of asking questions to which you know the answer: so that is what you are not to do.
Am I to give no answer, then, if a young man asks me something that I know? — for instance, Where does Charicles live? or Where is Critias?
Oh yes, answered Charicles, you may, in such cases.
Suppose I want to buy something, am I not even then to ask the price if the seller is under thirty?
Oh yes, answered Charicles, you may in such cases. But the fact is, Socrates, you are in the habit of asking questions to which you know the answer: so that is what you are not to do.
Am I to give no answer, then, if a young man asks me something that I know? — for instance, Where does Charicles live? or Where is Critias?
Oh yes, answered Charicles, you may, in such cases.
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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