Dialogue

 1  Gorg| coextensive with action, such as arithmetic, geometry, rhetoric. But
 2  Gorg|    hardly have meant to say that arithmetic was the same as rhetoric.
 3  Gorg|          which persuade, such as arithmetic, which is an art of persuasion
 4  Gorg|         for example, the arts of arithmetic, of calculation, of geometry,
 5  Gorg|        And so, Gorgias, you call arithmetic rhetoric.’ But I do not
 6  Gorg|       think that you really call arithmetic rhetoric any more than geometry
 7  Gorg|          say, ‘Socrates, what is arithmetic?’ and I should reply to
 8  Gorg|          you replied to me, that arithmetic is one of those arts which
 9  Gorg|      assembly, ‘as aforesaid’ of arithmetic, but with a difference,
10  Gorg|       just now speaking:— do not arithmetic and the arithmeticians teach
11  Gorg|     GORGIAS: Yes.~SOCRATES: Then arithmetic as well as rhetoric is an
12  Gorg|          of discourse, not (like arithmetic) about odd and even, but