Dialogue

 1  Gorg| follows:—~Rhetoric treats of discourse; but music and medicine,
 2  Gorg|      are also concerned with discourse; in what way then does rhetoric
 3  Gorg|     concerned?~GORGIAS: With discourse.~SOCRATES: What sort of
 4  Gorg|       SOCRATES: What sort of discourse, Gorgias?—such discourse
 5  Gorg|     discourse, Gorgias?—such discourse as would teach the sick
 6  Gorg|    not treat of all kinds of discourse?~GORGIAS: Certainly not.~
 7  Gorg|      medicine also treats of discourse?~GORGIAS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 8  Gorg|   GORGIAS: Yes.~SOCRATES: Of discourse concerning diseases?~GORGIAS:
 9  Gorg|      gymnastic also treat of discourse concerning the good or evil
10  Gorg|   arts:—all of them treat of discourse concerning the subjects
11  Gorg|      the art which treats of discourse, and all the other arts
12  Gorg|      the other arts treat of discourse, do you not call them arts
13  Gorg|   only through the medium of discourse. And therefore I am justified
14  Gorg|      that rhetoric treats of discourse.~SOCRATES: I am not sure
15  Gorg|   only through the medium of discourse; and an adversary who wished
16  Gorg|     that rhetoric treated of discourse, not (like arithmetic) about
17  Gorg|     I would not allow you to discourse at length. But I think that