Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 120a

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[120a]

Alcibiades
Of whom are you speaking now, Socrates?

Socrates
Do you not know that our city makes war occasionally on the Spartans and on the Great King?

Alcibiades
That is true.

Socrates
And if you are minded to be the head of our state, you would be right in thinking that your contest is with the kings of Sparta and of Persia?

Alcibiades
That sounds like the truth.

Socrates
No, my good friend; you ought rather to keep your eye on Meidias

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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