Dialogue

 1  Gorg|         those things ‘unfit for ears polite’ which Callicles
 2  Gorg|        language, the box on the ears, will recoil upon his assailant. (
 3  Gorg|  murdered, robbed, boxed on the ears with impunity. Take my advice,
 4  Gorg|        to death or boxed on the ears with impunity. For I may
 5  Gorg|   retaliation of the box on the ears; the nakedness of the souls
 6  Gorg|         and Asia ringing in his ears; though he is the civilizer
 7  Gorg|      will teach him to gain the ears of the multitude on any
 8  Gorg|     disagreeable, and has to my ears the twang of slavery. So
 9  Gorg| expression, may be boxed on the ears with impunity. Then, my
10  Gorg|         he likes,—he may box my ears, which was a brave saying
11  Gorg|         that to be boxed on the ears wrongfully is not the worst
12  Gorg| laconising set who bruise their ears.~SOCRATES: But what I am
13  Gorg|         judging; their eyes and ears and their whole bodies are
14  Gorg|       shamefully box you on the ears, and put upon you any sort