[OR ON VIRTUE: TESTING] CHARACTERS MENO, SOCRATES, MENO’S BOY, ANYTUS [70] MEN. Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue can be taught, or is acquired by practice, not teaching? Or if neither by practice nor by learning, whether it comes to mankind by nature or in some other way? SOC. Meno, of old the Thessalians were famous and admired among the Greeks for their riding and [B] their riches; but now they have a name, I believe, for wisdom also, especially your friend Aristippus’s people, the