Plato, Protagoras, section 350a

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[350a] dive boldly into wells?

I do; divers.

Is this because they have knowledge, or for some other reason?

Because they have knowledge.

And who are bold in going to war on horseback—those who are practised horsemen, or those who are not?

Practised horsemen.

And who with bucklers—buckler-men, or those who are not?

Buckler-men: and so with all other cases, he went on, if that is your point; those who have knowledge are bolder than those who lack it, and individually they are bolder when they have learnt

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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