Socrates continues to dwell on the similarities between episteme and orthe doxa - they are both good, and therefore beneficial, as are the men who have either of them. Socrates proceeds to recap the discussion from the time Meno gave up answering the question what arete is by returning to ask which of the four options is held by Socrates, concerning the type of thing arete is - teachable, exercisable, something coming to people by nature, or coming in some other way. Socrates' reconstruction of the discussion is perverse, the only plausible explanation being that he is testing Meno's ability to recollect.