Dialogue

 1 Menex|     was the best among all the Hellenes—Pericles, the son of Xanthippus.~
 2 Menex|    ought to fight both against Hellenes for the sake of Hellenes
 3 Menex|       Hellenes for the sake of Hellenes on behalf of freedom, and
 4 Menex|        and most warlike of the Hellenes of that day, and they were
 5 Menex|     the other, and none of the Hellenes dared to assist either the
 6 Menex|        the action to which the Hellenes looked back when they ventured
 7 Menex|       Marathon only showed the Hellenes that it was possible to
 8 Menex|     had hitherto possessed the Hellenes, and so made the fear of
 9 Menex|   teaching and habituating the Hellenes not to fear the barbarians
10 Menex|    make a new attempt upon the Hellenes, and therefore justice requires
11 Menex|     her will in a war with the Hellenes. On the breaking out of
12 Menex|    behalf of liberty in aid of Hellenes against Hellenes; they were
13 Menex|        aid of Hellenes against Hellenes; they were brave men, and
14 Menex|   mighty war, in which all the Hellenes joined, and devastated our
15 Menex|       other chief state of the Hellenes, that they could conquer
16 Menex|     the war, is that the other Hellenes, in their extreme animosity
17 Menex|        back, barbarian against Hellenes, and all the hosts, both
18 Menex|     and all the hosts, both of Hellenes and barbarians, were united
19 Menex|      how unlike what the other Hellenes expected! And the reason
20 Menex|      at the ingratitude of the Hellenes, when she remembered how
21 Menex|     would no longer defend the Hellenes, when enslaved either by
22 Menex|       to subject the remaining Hellenes. And why should I say more?
23 Menex|     out aid, and delivered the Hellenes from slavery, and they were
24 Menex|   other allies, to give up the Hellenes in Asia, whom the Lacedaemonians
25 Menex|     would make over to him the Hellenes of the continent, and we
26 Menex| barbarian, because we are pure Hellenes, having no admixture of
27 Menex|   barbarians, and yet pass for Hellenes, and dwell in the midst
28 Menex|   midst of us; but we are pure Hellenes, uncontaminated by any foreign
29 Menex|        unholy act of giving up Hellenes to barbarians. And we were