Dialogue

 1 Menex|            later times. The Persian war usually formed the centre
 2 Menex|            of Athenian history. The war of Athens and Boeotia is
 3 Menex|             Athens and Boeotia is a war of liberation; the Athenians
 4 Menex|            praise those who died in war, and all our ancestors who
 5 Menex|           transports and vessels of war, and 300 ships, and Datis
 6 Menex|   destruction of Hellas.~And so the war against the barbarians was
 7 Menex|       engaged against her will in a war with the Hellenes. On the
 8 Menex|              On the breaking out of war, our citizens met the Lacedaemonians
 9 Menex|             first after the Persian war who fought on behalf of
10 Menex|       Afterwards there was a mighty war, in which all the Hellenes
11 Menex|        considering that they should war with the fellow-countrymen
12 Menex|         with barbarians they should war to the death. Worthy of
13 Menex|            they also who waged this war, and are here interred;
14 Menex|             Athenians in the former war with the barbarians, that
15 Menex|          their victory in the civil war with Hellas, in which they
16 Menex|         they had been allied in the war against the barbarians.
17 Menex|        peace there followed a third war, which was of a terrible
18 Menex|             desperate nature of the war, is that the other Hellenes,
19 Menex|            she was exhausted by the war, and our ships were blockaded
20 Menex|          won for us, but the entire war was decided by them, and
21 Menex|         abroad, but there sprang up war at home; and, if men are
22 Menex|          are destined to have civil war, no one could have desired
23 Menex|       moderation did they order the war against the tyrants in Eleusis,
24 Menex|         compelled, entered into the war, and built walls and ships,
25 Menex| Lacedaemonians growing weary of the war at sea, asked of us, as
26 Menex|            better, for we ended the war without the loss of our
27 Menex|             quit of us. Yet in this war we lost many brave men,
28 Menex|        children of those who die in war; the highest authority is