Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        false in individuals and states, in the treatment of the
 2  Gorg|         punishment. In this way states and individuals should seek
 3  Gorg|    tending to the well-being of states—better administration, better
 4  Gorg|      for them they will in some states of society be utterly helpless.
 5  Gorg|         others in their several states.~SOCRATES: And what would
 6  Gorg| rhetoricians meanly regarded in states, under the idea that they
 7  Gorg|         not very great power in states?~SOCRATES: Not if you mean
 8  Gorg|         least possible power in states, as I was just now saying;
 9  Gorg|         what they think best in states, and the tyrants, will have
10  Gorg|     tyrants have great power in states, unless Polus can refute
11  Gorg|       to be the rulers of their states, and justice consists in
12  Gorg|  assemblies of freemen in other states? Do the rhetoricians appear
13  Gorg|          at Athens and in other states, who have fulfilled their