[Footnote 24: Plato, Lachês, 194. [Greek: Kai/toi a)ê/thês g' ei)mi\] (Lachês) [Greek: tô=n toiou/tôn lo/gôn; a)lla/ ti/s me kai\ philoneiki/a ei)/lêphe pro\s ta\ ei)rême/na, kai\ ô(s a)lêthô=s a)ganaktô=, ei) ou(tôsi\ a)\ noô= mê\ oi(=o/s t' ei)mi\ ei)pei=n; noei=n me\n ga\r e)/moige dokô= peri\ a)ndrei/as o(/, ti e)/stin, ou)k oi)=da d' o(/pê| me a)/rti die/phugen, ô(/ste mê\ xullabei=n tô=| lo/gô| au)tê\n kai\ ei)pei=n o(/, ti e)/stin.] Compare the Charmidês p. 159 A, 160 D, where Sokrates professes to tell Charmides, If temperance is really in you, you can of course inform us what it is.] [Side-note: No solution given by Plato. Apparent tendency of his mind, in looking for a solution. Intelligence--cannot be understood without reference to some object or end.] Here, as elsewhere, Plato (or the Platonic Sokrates) exposes the faulty solutions of others, but proposes no better solution of his own, and even disclaims all ability to do so. We may nevertheless trace, in the refutation which he gives of the two unsatisfactory explanations, hints guiding the mind into that direction in which Plato looks to supply the deficiency. Thus when Lachês, after having given as his first answer (to the question, What is Courage?) a definition not even formally sufficient, is put by Sokrates upon giving his second answer,--That Courage is intelligent endurance: Sokrates asks him[25]--"Yes, _intelligent_: but intelligent to _what end_? Do you mean, to all things alike, great as well as little?" We are here reminded that _intelligence_, simply taken, is altogether undefined; that intelligence must relate to _something_--and when human conduct is in question, must relate to some end; and that the Something, and the End, to which it relates, must be set forth, before the proposition can be clearly understood. [Footnote 25: Plato, Lachês, 192 D. [Greek: ê( phro/nimos karteri/a . . . i)/dômen dê/, ê( ei)s ti phro/nimos; ê)\ ê( ei)s a(/panta kai\ ta\ mega/la kai\ ta\ smikra/?]] [Side-note: Object--is supplied in the answer of Nikias. Intelligence--of things terrible and not terrible. Such intelligence is not possessed by professional artists.]