Dialogue

 1  Gorg|  Herodicus. He could be chosen a physician by the assembly if he pleased,
 2  Gorg|   assembly if he pleased, for no physician could compete with a rhetorician
 3  Gorg|         to the ignorant than the physician, or any other expert. And
 4  Gorg|         judge as he would to the physician, and purge away his crime.
 5  Gorg|        is my meaning.’ Ought the physician then to have a larger share
 6  Gorg|          his citizens. He is the physician who will not allow the sick
 7  Gorg|          to Polus, he may be the physician who is tried by a jury of
 8  Gorg|         men, they must go to the physician and be healed. On this representation
 9  Gorg|        be right in calling him a physician?~POLUS: Yes.~CHAEREPHON:
10  Gorg|     praises, that is to say, the physician, the trainer, the money-maker,
11  Gorg|       come to you, and first the physician will say: ‘O Socrates, Gorgias
12  Gorg|           he will reply, ‘I am a physician.’ What do you mean? I shall
13  Gorg|          word, you will have the physician your slave, and the trainer
14  Gorg|        assembly meets to elect a physician or a shipwright or any other
15  Gorg|          Herodicus or some other physician to see one of his patients,
16  Gorg|          who would not allow the physician to give him medicine, or
17  Gorg|          he would not do for the physician just by the use of rhetoric.
18  Gorg|      that if a rhetorician and a physician were to go to any city,
19  Gorg|     elected state-physician, the physician would have no chance; but
20  Gorg|    therefore seek to defraud the physician or any other artist of his
21  Gorg|    powers of persuasion than the physician even in a matter of health?~
22  Gorg|     power of persuasion than the physician, he will have greater power
23  Gorg|   SOCRATES: Although he is not a physician:—is he?~GORGIAS: No.~SOCRATES:
24  Gorg|    SOCRATES: And he who is not a physician must, obviously, be ignorant
25  Gorg|          be ignorant of what the physician knows.~GORGIAS: Clearly.~
26  Gorg|         more persuasive than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive
27  Gorg|        has learned medicine is a physician, in like manner? He who
28  Gorg|          health, and whom only a physician or trainer will discern
29  Gorg|         for the body; and if the physician and the cook had to enter
30  Gorg|          or badness of food, the physician would be starved to death.
31  Gorg|     example, at the bidding of a physician, do they will the drinking
32  Gorg|          of the argument as to a physician without shrinking, and either
33  Gorg|        to pay the penalty to the physician for his sins against his
34  Gorg|        judge, as he would to the physician, in order that the disease
35  Gorg|        like brave men to let the physician operate with knife or searing
36  Gorg|           and one of us, being a physician, is wiser in the matter
37  Gorg|         engine-maker, and of the physician, and of the other arts of
38  Gorg| determine for me. Am I to be the physician of the State who will strive
39  Gorg|         shall be tried just as a physician would be tried in a court
40  Gorg|          do you suppose that the physician would be able to reply when