Plato, Theaetetus, section 142b

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[142b]

Eucleides
Just barely alive; for he is suffering severely from wounds, and, worse than that, he has been taken with the sickness that has broken out in the army.

Terpsion
You mean the dysentery?

Eucleides
Yes.

Terpsion
What a man he is who you say is in danger!

Eucleides
A noble man, Terpsion, and indeed just now I heard some people praising him highly for his conduct in the battle.

Terpsion
That is not at all strange; it would have been much more remarkable if he had not so conducted himself. But why did he not

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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Commentary references to this page (1):
- R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 176A
Cross-references to this page (3):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, PARTICLES
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Tenses
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (9):
- LSJ, αἱρέω
- LSJ, ἐγκωμι-άζω
- LSJ, γε
- LSJ, μήν
- LSJ, μόλι^ς
- LSJ, οἷος
- LSJ, τοι
- LSJ, ὑπό
- LSJ, χαλεπ-ός