What Wittgenstein forgot to mention about Socrates

Scholars are more or less agreed upon some distinctive characteristics of the character named „Socrates“ in Plato’s early dialogues. This Athenian citizen does not mention the
more elaborate doctrines of Plato’s later books and seems to be focussed on questions of ethics and conceptual clarification. It is likely that Plato’s literary creation, in these respects, more or less resembles the historical Socrates. Wittgenstein, on his part, does not distinguish between different roles assigned to the name „Socrates“ in Plato’s writings,
but I will focus on the provocative, probing intellectual, questioning received wisdom in
interchanges with citizens like Laches and Charmides. Platonic philosophy could never
have developed without this person’s impact and I will claim that the Socratic strategy
is quite similar to Wittgensteinian inquiries.