Dialogue

 1  Gorg|         retaliate on him.~‘Do you mean to say that the rhetoricians
 2  Gorg|         of all what he and Pindar mean by natural justice. Do they
 3  Gorg|          better?’ But what do you mean by the better? Tell me that,
 4  Gorg|         wish to drive me away. ‘I mean the worthier, the wiser.’
 5  Gorg|         worthier, the wiser.’ You mean to say that one man of sense
 6  Gorg|       something else;—what DO you mean? ‘I mean men of political
 7  Gorg|        else;—what DO you mean? ‘I mean men of political ability,
 8  Gorg|          themselves? ‘What do you mean?’ I mean to say that every
 9  Gorg| themselves? ‘What do you mean?’ I mean to say that every man is
10  Gorg|         governor. ‘I see that you mean those dolts, the temperate.
11  Gorg|           figure expresses what I mean. For true pleasure is a
12  Gorg|      against him. Neither does he mean to say that Archelaus is
13  Gorg|           the greatest number may mean also the greatest pain of
14  Gorg|        falsehood. This is what we mean by the greatest improvement
15  Gorg|           CHAEREPHON: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean such a
16  Gorg|          do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean such a question as would
17  Gorg|  Chaerephon.~GORGIAS: What do you mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean
18  Gorg|       mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean that he has not exactly
19  Gorg|           believe that you really mean to call any of these arts
20  Gorg|           your drift?~SOCRATES: I mean to say, that the producers
21  Gorg|           physician.’ What do you mean? I shall say. Do you mean
22  Gorg|         mean? I shall say. Do you mean that your art produces the
23  Gorg|          art of rhetoric; and you mean to say, if I am not mistaken,
24  Gorg|           have the same effect? I mean to say—Does he who teaches
25  Gorg|         let us see what we really mean about rhetoric; for I do
26  Gorg|    GORGIAS: Yes.~SOCRATES: Do you mean that you will teach him
27  Gorg|            that is.~SOCRATES: You mean to say, with the ignorant;
28  Gorg|    medicine and the other arts; I mean to say, does he really know
29  Gorg|        first.~POLUS: What! do you mean that I may not use as many
30  Gorg|        rhetoric?~SOCRATES: Do you mean what sort of an art?~POLUS:
31  Gorg|          but the rhetoric which I mean is a part of a not very
32  Gorg|            Socrates? Say what you mean, and never mind me.~SOCRATES:
33  Gorg|        but explain to me what you mean by saying that rhetoric
34  Gorg|        good only in appearance? I mean to say, that there are many
35  Gorg|           you more clearly what I mean: The soul and body being
36  Gorg|        answer.~POLUS: What do you mean? do you think that rhetoric
37  Gorg|      states?~SOCRATES: Not if you mean to say that power is a good
38  Gorg|      POLUS: And that is what I do mean to say.~SOCRATES: Then,
39  Gorg|          that I may know what you mean.~SOCRATES: Do men appear
40  Gorg|        Justly or unjustly, do you mean?~POLUS: In either case is
41  Gorg|      tyrant?~SOCRATES: Not if you mean by tyranny what I mean.~
42  Gorg|        you mean by tyranny what I mean.~POLUS: I mean, as I said
43  Gorg|     tyranny what I mean.~POLUS: I mean, as I said before, the power
44  Gorg|      issue:—very good. And do you mean to say also that if he meets
45  Gorg|         truth?~POLUS: What do you mean? If a man is detected in
46  Gorg|          quality of the action? I mean, for example, that if a
47  Gorg|            Do I understand you to mean what I mean by the term ‘
48  Gorg|     understand you to mean what I mean by the term ‘benefited’?
49  Gorg|           the term ‘benefited’? I mean, that if he be justly punished
50  Gorg|         worst?~POLUS: What do you mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean
51  Gorg|       mean, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I mean to say, that is most disgraceful
52  Gorg|         POLUS: To the judges, you mean.~SOCRATES: —Who are to punish
53  Gorg|    varying in different persons—I mean to say, if every man’s feelings
54  Gorg|       tell me what you and Pindar mean by natural justice: Do you
55  Gorg|       natural justice: Do you not mean that the superior should
56  Gorg|          noble have more than the mean? Am I not right in my recollection?~
57  Gorg|        aver.~SOCRATES: And do you mean by the better the same as
58  Gorg|       already, that by superior I mean better: do you imagine me
59  Gorg|           tell me, then, whom you mean, by the better?~CALLICLES:
60  Gorg|          the better?~CALLICLES: I mean the more excellent.~SOCRATES:
61  Gorg|           you tell me whether you mean by the better and superior
62  Gorg|   CALLICLES: Most assuredly, I do mean the wiser.~SOCRATES: Then
63  Gorg|           what I believe that you mean (and you must not suppose
64  Gorg|    CALLICLES: Yes; that is what I mean, and that is what I conceive
65  Gorg|        you. In the first place, I mean by superiors not cobblers
66  Gorg|           already told you that I mean those who are wise and courageous
67  Gorg|            CALLICLES: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean that every
68  Gorg|          do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean that every man is his own
69  Gorg|            CALLICLES: What do you mean by his ‘ruling over himself’?~
70  Gorg|    CALLICLES: What innocence! you mean those fools,—the temperate?~
71  Gorg|           but of a cormorant; you mean that he is to be hungering
72  Gorg|    CALLICLES: Yes, that is what I mean; he is to have all his desires
73  Gorg|            CALLICLES: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: Take the case
74  Gorg|         you say that to hunger, I mean the mere state of hunger,
75  Gorg|       really do not know what you mean.~SOCRATES: Why, do you not
76  Gorg|           just now mentioning—you mean to say that those which
77  Gorg|        even now understand what I mean?~CALLICLES: No, I do not.~
78  Gorg|     CALLICLES: I suppose that you mean health and strength?~SOCRATES:
79  Gorg|        the will to obtain them? I mean to ask whether a man will
80  Gorg|           Athenian people, if you mean to be in their good graces,
81  Gorg|     brought by some miserable and mean person.~SOCRATES: Then I
82  Gorg|    believe, is a true tale, for I mean to speak the truth. Homer