Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        division the question is asked—What is rhetoric? To this
 2  Gorg|         replies to the question asked by Chaerephon,—that he is
 3  Gorg|   statesmen, you answer—as if I asked you who were the good trainers,
 4  Gorg|         is ready, when they are asked, to acknowledge that injustice
 5  Gorg|  inventor.~The question is then asked, under which of these two
 6  Gorg|         questions which you are asked?~GORGIAS: Quite right, Chaerephon:
 7  Gorg|       elapsed since any one has asked me a new one.~CHAEREPHON:
 8  Gorg|       the question which he was asked.~GORGIAS: Then why not ask
 9  Gorg|          Polus, when Chaerephon asked you what was the art which
10  Gorg|         to the question: nobody asked what was the quality, but
11  Gorg|     answered Chaerephon when he asked you at first, to say what
12  Gorg|         the questions which are asked of you?~GORGIAS: Some answers,
13  Gorg|    there are of each. And if he asked again: ‘What is the art
14  Gorg|   imagine that this question is asked of you by them and by me;
15  Gorg|     this further question: If I asked, ‘What sort of a painter
16  Gorg|  admiring mind, Gorgias, when I asked what is the nature of rhetoric,
17  Gorg| refusing to answer what you are asked, I am compelled to stay
18  Gorg|      said that when Gorgias was asked by you, whether, if some
19  Gorg|         the last resort you are asked, whether the life of a catamite
20  Gorg|  Callicles, and about which you asked me whether I was in earnest
21  Gorg|         in earnest, as if I had asked, Who are or have been good