Dialogue

 1  Gorg|           might is right, and that law is nothing but the combination
 2  Gorg|           art of persuading in the law courts, and in the assembly,
 3  Gorg|       rhetoric effect in courts of law and assemblies? Plainly
 4  Gorg|            affirmed by him to be a law of nature. For convention
 5  Gorg|        shines forth. Pindar says, ‘Law, the king of all, does violence
 6  Gorg|       really derived from criminal law. He does not see that such
 7  Gorg|           may follow an invariable law, yet they may often be the
 8  Gorg|          There is the sophistry of law, the sophistry of medicine,
 9  Gorg|            include both ‘the moral law within and the starry heaven
10  Gorg|            persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as
11  Gorg|       rhetoric create in courts of law and other assemblies about
12  Gorg|         not instruct the courts of law or other assemblies about
13  Gorg| rhetoricians practise in courts of law. For there the one party
14  Gorg|       Heaven, and according to the law of nature: not, perhaps,
15  Gorg|       according to that artificial law, which we invent and impose
16  Gorg|            says in his poem, that~‘Law is the king of all, of mortals
17  Gorg|           Geryon, according to the law of natural right, and that
18  Gorg|        SOCRATES: And ‘lawful’ and ‘law’ are the names which are
19  Gorg|       which saves men in courts of law, and which you advise me
20  Gorg|  legislation is to the practice of law, or gymnastic to medicine.
21  Gorg|          of Cronos there existed a law respecting the destiny of