Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|         to write them, but cannot speak them, although he too must
 2 Euthyd|    themselves and teach others to speak and to compose speeches
 3 Euthyd|       tell the thing of which you speak or not?~You tell the thing
 4 Euthyd|       tell the thing of which you speak.~And he who tells, tells
 5 Euthyd|           rhetoricians, when they speak in the assembly, do nothing?~
 6 Euthyd|        And you say that gentlemen speak of things as they are?~Yes.~
 7 Euthyd|           are?~Yes.~Then the good speak evil of evil things, if
 8 Euthyd|           of evil things, if they speak of them as they are?~Yes,
 9 Euthyd|         indeed, he said; and they speak evil of evil men. And if
10 Euthyd|        take care that they do not speak evil of you, since I can
11 Euthyd|        can tell you that the good speak evil of the evil.~And do
12 Euthyd|          of the evil.~And do they speak great things of the great,
13 Euthyd|          said Ctesippus; and they speak coldly of the insipid and
14 Euthyd|        assented.~But if he cannot speak falsely, may he not think
15 Euthyd|     enable me to know whether you speak truly.~What proof shall
16 Euthyd|           shall know that you are speak the truth; if you tell us
17 Euthyd|         that if it be possible to speak and say nothing—you are
18 Euthyd| impossible, he said.~But when you speak of stones, wood, iron bars,
19 Euthyd|       wood, iron bars, do you not speak of the silent?~Not when
20 Euthyd|          good friend, do they all speak?~Yes; those which speak.~
21 Euthyd|           speak?~Yes; those which speak.~Nay, said Ctesippus, but
22 Euthyd|          all things are silent or speak?~Neither and both, said