Dialogue

1  Gorg|      having been detected in a criminal attempt against the state,
2  Gorg| replies, that if they are both criminal they are both miserable,
3  Gorg|  punishment. And therefore the criminal should himself go to the
4  Gorg|     agree in thinking that the criminal is happier when punished
5  Gorg|      sensations of the impaled criminal are more agreeable than
6  Gorg|   which is really derived from criminal law. He does not see that
7  Gorg|     afforded by the pauper and criminal classes, who scarcely reflect
8  Gorg|      now as he is the greatest criminal of all the Macedonians,
9  Gorg|    because he was a very great criminal and unpunished: I, on the