Dialogue

 1  Gorg|       politics, as he ventures to call himself, cannot safely go
 2  Gorg|           sciences. All that they call science is merely the result
 3  Gorg|          excuse ourselves? And we call to our aid the rhetoric
 4  Gorg|    nothing in them which they can call themselves, they must acquire
 5  Gorg|      undertaken a task which will call forth all his powers. He
 6  Gorg|          a word or two, which may call up not one but many latent
 7  Gorg|       Herodicus, what ought we to call him? Ought he not to have
 8  Gorg|      Polygnotus, what ought we to call him?~POLUS: Clearly, a painter.~
 9  Gorg| CHAEREPHON: But now what shall we call him—what is the art in which
10  Gorg|          is, and what we ought to call Gorgias: Or rather, Gorgias,
11  Gorg|          question,—what are we to call you, and what is the art
12  Gorg|            SOCRATES: Then I am to call you a rhetorician?~GORGIAS:
13  Gorg|        good one too, if you would call me that which, in Homeric
14  Gorg|        SOCRATES: Then why, if you call rhetoric the art which treats
15  Gorg|          of discourse, do you not call them arts of rhetoric?~GORGIAS:
16  Gorg|           that you really mean to call any of these arts rhetoric;
17  Gorg|        say, ‘And so, Gorgias, you call arithmetic rhetoric.’ But
18  Gorg|         not think that you really call arithmetic rhetoric any
19  Gorg|        compelled to answer, for I call what is bad ignoble: though
20  Gorg|         the best. An art I do not call it, but only an experience,
21  Gorg|        applications. And I do not call any irrational thing an
22  Gorg|          by the great—what do you call him?—not you, for you say
23  Gorg|          is a good, and would you call this great power?~POLUS:
24  Gorg|     wealth and the like you would call goods, and their opposites
25  Gorg|          are the things which you call neither good nor evil?~POLUS:
26  Gorg|          institutions, do you not call them beautiful in reference
27  Gorg|           SOCRATES: And you would call sounds and music beautiful
28  Gorg|      SOCRATES: And this you would call injustice and ignorance
29  Gorg|         that to which I assented, call me ‘dolt,’ and deem me unworthy
30  Gorg|          presume, which you would call knowledge?~CALLICLES: There
31  Gorg|         Yes.~SOCRATES: And do you call the fools and cowards good
32  Gorg|           cookery, which I do not call an art, but only an experience,
33  Gorg|       exhort me, and act what you call the manly part of speaking
34  Gorg|           his art, and sneeringly call him an engine-maker, and
35  Gorg|        Because only such benefits call forth a desire to requite