Dialogue

 1  Gorg|         fine thing?’ I have not yet told you what rhetoric is. Will
 2  Gorg|         splitting words? Have I not told you that the superior is
 3  Gorg|             of the citizens. I have told you again and again (and
 4  Gorg|             would be affronted if I told you that these are a parcel
 5  Gorg|            words, stories which are told to a living audience, and
 6  Gorg|        living audience, and so well told that we are more than half-inclined
 7  Gorg|              when I have not as yet told you what rhetoric is?~POLUS:
 8  Gorg| indiscriminate mass. And now I have told you my notion of rhetoric,
 9  Gorg|           do you not see—have I not told you already, that by superior
10  Gorg|           CALLICLES: I have already told you. In the first place,
11  Gorg|           CALLICLES: I have already told you that I mean those who
12  Gorg|         being made, as I see and am told, now as of old; about our
13  Gorg|           such a predicament? If he told the truth he could only