Nichols, James H., "Introduction to the Laches," The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, ed. Thomas L. Pangle, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987, 269-80.

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The questions concerning the Laches as a whole can hardly fail to strike the reader. Everyone knows that the Laches is about courage: why, then, is fully half of the dialogue devoted to other matters before Socrates clearly formulates the question of what courage is?

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