Dialogue

 1  Gorg|          astonishment. He can hardly understand the meaning of Archelaus
 2  Gorg|           irony, that before men can understand one another they must have
 3  Gorg|            higher art. You seemed to understand what I said at the time,
 4  Gorg|             not be able to make them understand that he has only been actuated
 5  Gorg|              he is a cobbler. Do you understand?~CHAEREPHON: I understand,
 6  Gorg|            understand?~CHAEREPHON: I understand, and will ask him: Tell
 7  Gorg|       GORGIAS: Yes.~SOCRATES: And to understand that about which they speak?~
 8  Gorg|    mentioning, also make men able to understand and speak about the sick?~
 9  Gorg|              sure whether I entirely understand you, but I dare say I shall
10  Gorg|         rhetoric?~SOCRATES: Will you understand my answer? Rhetoric, according
11  Gorg|           though I doubt whether you understand what I was saying before.~
12  Gorg|        Socrates, I cannot say that I understand myself.~SOCRATES: I do not
13  Gorg|         excused, because you did not understand me, and could make no use
14  Gorg|          length; but if I am able to understand you, let me have the benefit
15  Gorg|           Certainly not.~SOCRATES: I understand you to say, if I am not
16  Gorg|           POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: Do I understand you to mean what I mean
17  Gorg|          when they are. Now you must understand that my words are an echo
18  Gorg|              and drinks.~SOCRATES: I understand: then, perhaps, of coats—
19  Gorg|             but wise politicians who understand the administration of a
20  Gorg|            time?~CALLICLES: I do not understand what you are saying.~GORGIAS:
21  Gorg|             of you.—Well, then, as I understand you to say, I may assume
22  Gorg|         however, you do not even now understand what I mean?~CALLICLES:
23  Gorg|      preferring?~CALLICLES: I do not understand you, Socrates, and I wish
24  Gorg| intentionally, in order that you may understand me the better. The purveyor
25  Gorg|            seem at first to know and understand and assent to my words,