Dialogue

1  Gorg|     of questions, which are answered by him to his own great
2  Gorg|  the good trainers, and you answered, Thearion, the baker, Mithoecus,
3  Gorg|     that he has not exactly answered the question which he was
4  Gorg| briefly and clearly, as you answered Chaerephon when he asked
5  Gorg|   them, then you would have answered very well?~GORGIAS: Quite
6  Gorg|  not see that I had not yet answered him when he proceeded to
7  Gorg|     not, until I have first answered, ‘What is rhetoric?’ For
8  Gorg|   would be displeased if he answered ‘No’; and then in consequence
9  Gorg|   are saying, and have only answered hitherto out of civility