Dialogue

 1  Gorg|         the level of cookery, he replies that at any rate rhetoricians,
 2  Gorg|        experimental arts,’ etc., replies Polus, in rhetorical and
 3  Gorg|   Gorgias is willing enough, and replies to the question asked by
 4  Gorg|     would like to know before he replies, whether Gorgias will quarrel
 5  Gorg|        pass. Socrates ironically replies, that when old men trip,
 6  Gorg|        Polus. Not an art at all, replies Socrates, but a thing which
 7  Gorg|        he pleases.’ But Socrates replies that he has no wish to put
 8  Gorg|         burnt to death. Socrates replies, that if they are both criminal
 9  Gorg|     species of refutation. Polus replies, that he is already refuted;
10  Gorg|          is unpunished? Socrates replies, that what is done justly
11  Gorg|      ought to be doing.~Socrates replies in a style of playful irony,
12  Gorg|         were children.~Callicles replies, that this is only true
13  Gorg|       were still alive. Socrates replies that none of these were
14  Gorg| similarly imitate him.’ Socrates replies that he is not deaf, and
15  Gorg|      only way of avoiding death, replies Socrates; and he has heard
16  Gorg|     creator of wealth? ‘Yes,’ he replies. And who are you? ‘A money-maker.’