Ἐρώτησις ἔνδοξος

[Reputable question,] dialectical premise.¹ Now not every premise [is] a question but the dialectical [premise sc. is]. Not every question [is] a dialectical premise, for there are many kinds of question. For those who ask a question ask either about something which is accidental (such as those who ask what is the natural movement of fire or what has happened to Socrates) or, on the contrary, they define and assume in their questioning what has happened [is accidental] and seek to learn to whom [or to what] it has happened: such as the one who asks to what animal it is accidental [to be] white or black, and what good thing is choiceworthy in itself, and who is [the person] seated. And there is another kind of question [which is] about substance;² for instance, when [we are investigating something] and bringing forward what it is through a question, someone who is asking says what a flower is.³ For he seeks to learn the substance of the thing, not what is accidental to it. There is a third kind of question; for example, when someone [asks] a question about a premise, then,⁴ in demanding an answer, he responds with the other part of the contradictory premise. For instance, “[is] the world spherical?”⁵ The dialectical premise is ranged under this kind of question.
Question, proposition, [and] enquiry are different. Search under the [entry] "proposition" [a)ci/wma].⁶ Search Aristophanes’ interrogations, under the [entry] "if he should endure the sufferings which he inflicted".⁷