Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        even greater. Not merely rhetoricians, but poets, musicians, and
 2  Gorg|        replies that at any rate rhetoricians, like despots, have great
 3  Gorg|       enemy of the Sophists and rhetoricians; and also of the statesmen,
 4  Gorg|        you mean to say that the rhetoricians are esteemed flatterers?’
 5  Gorg|   another. Statesmen, Sophists, rhetoricians, poets, are alike brought
 6  Gorg| similarity. The poets, like the rhetoricians, are condemned because they
 7  Gorg|      are able to make other men rhetoricians?~GORGIAS: Yes, that is exactly
 8  Gorg|     rhetorician, and a maker of rhetoricians, let me ask you, with what
 9  Gorg|         will advise and not the rhetoricians: what do you say, Gorgias?
10  Gorg|      rhetorician and a maker of rhetoricians, I cannot do better than
11  Gorg|       given in such matters the rhetoricians are the advisers; they are
12  Gorg|         POLUS: And are the good rhetoricians meanly regarded in states,
13  Gorg|       not say just now that the rhetoricians are like tyrants, and that
14  Gorg|         I tell you, Polus, that rhetoricians and tyrants have the least
15  Gorg|    leave me unrefuted, why, the rhetoricians who do what they think best
16  Gorg|      SOCRATES: How then can the rhetoricians or the tyrants have great
17  Gorg|       me after the manner which rhetoricians practise in courts of law.
18  Gorg| Archelaus and other tyrants and rhetoricians and potentates? (Compare
19  Gorg|      theatres seem to you to be rhetoricians?~CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
20  Gorg|         in other states? Do the rhetoricians appear to you always to
21  Gorg|         therefore, if they were rhetoricians, they did not use the true