Dialogue

 1  Gorg|       philosophy, and sees in the laws of the state only a violation
 2  Gorg|         bodies, colours, figures, laws, habits, studies, must they
 3  Gorg|       sceptre of gold, and giving laws to the dead.’~My wish for
 4  Gorg|       parts of his writings (e.g. Laws), he has fairly laid himself
 5  Gorg|  introduced in the preface to the Laws, but soon falls into the
 6  Gorg| earth-born men (Republic; compare Laws), in which by the adaptation
 7  Gorg|       different ways in which the laws speak to men (Laws). There
 8  Gorg|      which the laws speak to men (Laws). There also occur in Plato
 9  Gorg|   wandering about without a head (Laws), which is repeated, not
10  Gorg|        begins again, and arts and laws are slowly and painfully
11  Gorg|        POLUS: I should.~SOCRATES: Laws and institutions also have
12  Gorg|   conceive, is that the makers of laws are the majority who are
13  Gorg|           are weak; and they make laws and distribute praises and
14  Gorg|           and charms, and all our laws which are against nature:
15  Gorg|           is inexperienced in the laws of the State, and in the
16  Gorg|        were saying, they make the laws?~CALLICLES: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
17  Gorg|     Certainly.~SOCRATES: Then the laws of the many are the laws
18  Gorg|          laws of the many are the laws of the superior?~CALLICLES:
19  Gorg|       SOCRATES: Then they are the laws of the better; for the superior
20  Gorg|      since they are superior, the laws which are made by them are
21  Gorg|         their ipsissima verba are laws?~SOCRATES: Ho! my philosopher,
22  Gorg|           without a head (compare Laws); please then to go on a
23  Gorg|       sceptre of gold, and giving laws to the dead.’~Now I, Callicles,