Dialogue

 1  Gorg|         he can even explain his meaning to Polus, he must enlighten
 2  Gorg|       can hardly understand the meaning of Archelaus being miserable,
 3  Gorg|         in order to explain his meaning to them, Socrates draws
 4  Gorg|         fools? ‘Yes, that is my meaning.’ Ought the physician then
 5  Gorg|        Phaedo. What then is his meaning? His meaning we shall be
 6  Gorg|        then is his meaning? His meaning we shall be able to illustrate
 7  Gorg|       conceal, half reveal, his meaning. The more he is in earnest,
 8  Gorg|     time. Let us illustrate the meaning of his words by applying
 9  Gorg|       the wild beast within us, meaning the passions which are always
10  Gorg| frequently referred to, and the meaning breaks through so as rather
11  Gorg|       which is full of life and meaning to the reader. A poem may
12  Gorg|       You perfectly conceive my meaning, Socrates.~SOCRATES: But
13  Gorg|      and power: and I take your meaning to be that rhetoric is an
14  Gorg|         your apprehension of my meaning.~SOCRATES: Well, then, let
15  Gorg| anticipating and suspecting the meaning of one another’s words;
16  Gorg|         do not know what my own meaning is as yet. When the assembly
17  Gorg|         have misunderstood your meaning. You say that you can make
18  Gorg| advantage, and that this is the meaning of great power; and if not,
19  Gorg|         is shameful and unjust; meaning, by the word injustice,
20  Gorg|        the exact words, but the meaning is, that without buying
21  Gorg|         CALLICLES: What is your meaning, Socrates?~SOCRATES: I will
22  Gorg|       using words which have no meaning and that you are explaining
23  Gorg|         Or, if this is not your meaning, perhaps you would say that
24  Gorg|      one may know that to be my meaning.~CALLICLES: Quite so, Socrates;
25  Gorg|         all the souls in Hades, meaning the invisible world (aeides),
26  Gorg|         another, as if you were meaning to deceive me. And yet I