Dialogue

 1  Gorg|      balanced or double forms of speech (compare Gorg.; Symp.).
 2  Gorg|        veil of irony, he makes a speech, but, true to his character,
 3  Gorg|         has learnt how to make a speech, but not how to answer a
 4  Gorg| apologizes for the length of his speech, which was necessary to
 5  Gorg|          and seeming. Figures of speech are made the basis of arguments.
 6  Gorg|          pressing his figures of speech or chains of argument; and
 7  Gorg|     Adopting a similar figure of speech, Socrates would have them
 8  Gorg|   ourselves:—What is thought but speech? What is feeling but rhetoric?
 9  Gorg|        called after him: (5) the speech at the beginning of the
10  Gorg|         orator Lysias; the rival speech of Socrates and the recantation
11  Gorg|      somewhat laboured figure of speech intended to illustrate the
12  Gorg|        wave:—on these figures of speech the changes are rung many
13  Gorg|         into persons, figures of speech into realities. These myths
14  Gorg|         it is really a figure of speech in which the ‘spiritual
15  Gorg|         may employ both modes of speech not improperly or inharmoniously.
16  Gorg|       hand, any single figure of speech if too often repeated, or
17  Gorg|      striking image or figure of speech is not forgotten, but is
18  Gorg|         in the habit of opposing speech and writing, poetry and
19  Gorg|     taught how to make a capital speech, Gorgias; but he is not
20  Gorg|      occasion the longer mode of speech which Polus was attempting?
21  Gorg|       draughts; in some of these speech is pretty nearly co-extensive
22  Gorg|           and I myself heard the speech of Pericles when he advised
23  Gorg|          Polus, the prolixity of speech in which you indulged at
24  Gorg|         deprived of the power of speech—that would be hard indeed.
25  Gorg|    inconsistent in making a long speech, when I would not allow
26  Gorg|   question or the beginning of a speech?~POLUS: I am asking a question.~
27  Gorg|        is confirmed by your last speech. Well then, the inference
28  Gorg|         metre, there will remain speech? (Compare Republic.)~CALLICLES:
29  Gorg|         sure.~SOCRATES: And this speech is addressed to a crowd