Dialogue

 1  Gorg|     under the pretext that the old man was tired, and now avails
 2  Gorg|     would already have been an old man. The date is clearly
 3  Gorg|    third,’ in the words of the old song, or how would you rank
 4  Gorg|        not be just—here is the old confusion of the arts and
 5  Gorg|  ironically replies, that when old men trip, the young set
 6  Gorg|   observes, is a return to the old doctrine of himself and
 7  Gorg|      from good, returns to his old division of empirical habits,
 8  Gorg|       applaud the statesmen of old, who pandered to the vices
 9  Gorg|      of your predecessors. The old story is always being repeated—‘
10  Gorg|      you think that this is an old wives’ fable. But you, who
11  Gorg|       as yet no existence. The old difficulty of framing a
12  Gorg|       former, according to the old Socratic notion, as deferred
13  Gorg| feeling of them in others. The old he makes young again; the
14  Gorg|        by the adaptation of an old tradition Plato makes a
15  Gorg|     the dead came to life, the old grew middle-aged, and the
16  Gorg|      men singing at feasts the old drinking song, in which
17  Gorg|  children is, that when we get old and stumble, a younger generation
18  Gorg|         a child of seven years old, who was the legitimate
19  Gorg|      business, as they said of old, and take what I can get
20  Gorg|     see and am told, now as of old; about our statesmen. When
21  Gorg|    SOCRATES: Do not repeat the old story—that he who likes
22  Gorg|       shall have to repeat the old answer, that he will be
23  Gorg|        or that I speak evil of old men, and use bitter words
24  Gorg|    appear to you to be only an old wife’s tale, which you will