Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        or even as a painter of figures, if there were other painters
 2  Gorg|   there were other painters of figures; neither can you define
 3  Gorg|    applied to bodies, colours, figures, laws, habits, studies,
 4  Gorg|       of the real and seeming. Figures of speech are made the basis
 5  Gorg|      only be represented under figures derived from visible objects.
 6  Gorg|      visible objects. If these figures are suggestive of some new
 7  Gorg|       them as if they were not figures but realities, is due to
 8  Gorg|       violence in pressing his figures of speech or chains of argument;
 9  Gorg|       and third wave:—on these figures of speech the changes are
10  Gorg|      transformed into persons, figures of speech into realities.
11  Gorg|       the meadow, the majestic figures of the judges sitting in
12  Gorg|      you said, ‘The painter of figures,’ should I not be right
13  Gorg|       in asking, ‘What kind of figures, and where do you find them?’~
14  Gorg|  besides, who paint many other figures?~GORGIAS: True.~SOCRATES:
15  Gorg|       such as bodies, colours, figures, sounds, institutions, do
16  Gorg| SOCRATES: And you would say of figures or colours generally that