Plato, Alcibiades 2, section 148b

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[148b] when it is really a case for great caution lest one pray unawares for what is evil while thinking it to be one's good, and then after a little while, as you were saying,¹ one change one's tune and retract all one's former prayers.

Socrates
And did not the poet whom I quoted at the beginning of our discussion² know more than we, when he bade us pray for the averting of what is grievous, even though we pray for it?

Alcibiades
I think so.

Socrates
Then it is their admiration of this poet, Alcibiades,

1 Plat. Alc. 2.142d.

2 Plat. Alc. 2.143d.

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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