Dialogue

 1  Gorg|      pronounce even the great king to be happy, unless he knows
 2  Gorg| Alcetas, brother of Perdiccas king of Macedon—and he, by every
 3  Gorg|        Pindar says, ‘Law, the king of all, does violence with
 4  Gorg|   prevent him. But if he is a king, and has power, how base
 5  Gorg|        perhaps even the great king himself, appears before
 6  Gorg|      interval which separates king from tyrant, should not
 7  Gorg|   even know whether the great king was a happy man?~SOCRATES:
 8  Gorg|    his poem, that~‘Law is the king of all, of mortals as well
 9  Gorg|       originally the son of a king, or had a nature capable
10  Gorg|      on the soul of the great king, or of some other king or
11  Gorg|  great king, or of some other king or potentate, who has no