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 1 Menex|                                 Menexenus~
 2 Menex|         the Lesser Hippias, the Menexenus or Funeral Oration, the
 3 Menex|    Hippias than against it.~The Menexenus or Funeral Oration is cited
 4 Menex|         the proper place of the Menexenus would be at the end of the
 5 Menex|      the Lesser Hippias and the Menexenus, it is to be compared to
 6 Menex|                INTRODUCTION~The Menexenus has more the character of
 7 Menex|        equal to Thucydides. The Menexenus, though not without real
 8 Menex|       Marathon and Salamis. The Menexenus veils in panegyric the weak
 9 Menex|    mentioned.~The author of the Menexenus, whether Plato or not, is
10 Menex|     dance naked out of love for Menexenus, is any more un-Platonic
11 Menex|       But he does not impose on Menexenus by his dissimulation. Without
12 Menex|   enough that the speech in the Menexenus like that in the Phaedrus
13 Menex|         of the dead. But in the Menexenus a future state is clearly,
14 Menex| strongly, asserted.~Whether the Menexenus is a genuine writing of
15 Menex|                                 MENEXENUS~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE:
16 Menex|      THE DIALOGUE: Socrates and Menexenus.~SOCRATES: Whence come you,
17 Menex|      SOCRATES: Whence come you, Menexenus? Are you from the Agora?~
18 Menex|         Are you from the Agora?~MENEXENUS: Yes, Socrates; I have been
19 Menex|         kindly took care of us.~MENEXENUS: Yes, Socrates, I shall
20 Menex|       And whom did they choose?~MENEXENUS: No one; they delayed the
21 Menex|     will be chosen.~SOCRATES: O Menexenus! Death in battle is certainly
22 Menex|       listening to their words, Menexenus, and become enchanted by
23 Menex|        keep ringing in my ears.~MENEXENUS: You are always making fun
24 Menex|    persons whom he is praising.~MENEXENUS: Do you think not, Socrates?~
25 Menex|      SOCRATES: Certainly ‘not.’~MENEXENUS: Do you think that you could
26 Menex|       speak is no great wonder, Menexenus, considering that I have
27 Menex|          the son of Xanthippus.~MENEXENUS: And who is she? I suppose
28 Menex|  Athenians among the Athenians.~MENEXENUS: And what would you be able
29 Menex|        I believe, she composed.~MENEXENUS: And can you remember what
30 Menex|        I was always forgetting.~MENEXENUS: Then why will you not rehearse
31 Menex|        if I publish her speech.~MENEXENUS: Nay, Socrates, let us have
32 Menex|      games of youth in old age.~MENEXENUS: Far otherwise, Socrates;
33 Menex|      your ways.~You have heard, Menexenus, the oration of Aspasia
34 Menex|        of Aspasia the Milesian.~MENEXENUS: Truly, Socrates, I marvel
35 Menex|      come with me and hear her.~MENEXENUS: I have often met Aspasia,
36 Menex|        grateful for her speech?~MENEXENUS: Yes, Socrates, I am very
37 Menex|     political speeches of hers.~MENEXENUS: Fear not, only let me hear