Dialogue

 1 Menex|       to the task of praising men to themselves. When we remember
 2 Menex|  intending to govern us elder men, like the rest of your family,
 3 Menex|    the praises of these brave men? In their life they rejoiced
 4 Menex|    that she was the mother of men, for in those days she alone
 5 Menex|    and the government of good men is good, and of bad men
 6 Menex|       men is good, and of bad men bad. And I must show that
 7 Menex|   according to the fancies of men, and is sometimes called
 8 Menex|     and unequal conditions of men, and therefore their governments
 9 Menex|        They were the deeds of men who thought that they ought
10 Menex|       equal; the minds of all men were enthralled by him—so
11 Menex|   Sardis, and he sent 500,000 men in transports and vessels
12 Menex|      will know what manner of men they were who received the
13 Menex| barbarians first taught other men that the power of the Persians
14 Menex| invincible, but that hosts of men and the multitude of riches
15 Menex|       And I assert that those men are the fathers not only
16 Menex|       became disciples of the men of Marathon. To them, therefore,
17 Menex|   came nearest to it; for the men of Marathon only showed
18 Menex|      This is the glory of the men who fought at sea, that
19 Menex|  numbers, whether of ships or men, to cease among them. And
20 Menex|       the sea. These were the men who fought by sea at the
21 Menex|     then, as prosperity makes men jealous, there succeeded
22 Menex|     Hellenes; they were brave men, and freed those whom they
23 Menex|        and in this many brave men who are here interred lost
24 Menex|   valour was confessed of all men, for they conquered their
25 Menex|       up war at home; and, if men are destined to have civil
26 Menex|   this war we lost many brave men, such as were those who
27 Menex|    treason at Lechaeum. Brave men, too, were those who delivered
28 Menex|       were the actions of the men who are here interred, and
29 Menex|   strive to be the bravest of men. And I think that I ought
30 Menex|       your fathers were brave men; for we might have lived
31 Menex|    that to such a one neither men nor Gods are friendly, either
32 Menex|      lives that they are true men, and had men for their sons.
33 Menex|    they are true men, and had men for their sons. Of old the
34 Menex|  hanging in suspense on other men, or changing with the vicissitude