Dialogue

 1  Gorg|            good statesman. The same tale might be repeated about
 2  Gorg|             which I will tell you a tale:—~Under the rule of Cronos,
 3  Gorg|      universe is a suit of clothes, Tale of a Tub). The fiction seems
 4  Gorg|         gives verisimilitude to the tale.~It is scarcely necessary
 5  Gorg|     beautiful but rather artificial tale of Prometheus and Epimetheus
 6  Gorg|          these may be added (6) the tale of the grasshoppers, and (
 7  Gorg|           grasshoppers, and (7) the tale of Thamus and of Theuth,
 8  Gorg|      politicians: (12) the ironical tale of the pilot who plies between
 9  Gorg|          the past: for example, the tale of the earth-born men in
10  Gorg|         from the consistency of the tale to its truth. The new order
11  Gorg|      theocratical. In this fanciful tale Plato has dropped, or almost
12  Gorg|           with the word, invented a tale in which he called the soul—
13  Gorg|              but people say that ‘a tale should have a head and not
14  Gorg|            unjustly perish,’—so the tale runs. But the cry is all
15  Gorg| story-tellers say, to a very pretty tale, which I dare say that you
16  Gorg|             as I believe, is a true tale, for I mean to speak the
17  Gorg|             as possible.’~From this tale, Callicles, which I have
18  Gorg|            to be only an old wife’s tale, which you will contemn.