Dialogue

 1 Menex|         the orators praised ‘the Athenians among the Athenians,’ falsifying
 2 Menex|          the Athenians among the Athenians,’ falsifying persons and
 3 Menex|    Isocrates and Demosthenes the Athenians were still living on the
 4 Menex|         a war of liberation; the Athenians gave back the Spartans taken
 5 Menex|          orations. To praise the Athenians among the Athenians was
 6 Menex|          the Athenians among the Athenians was easy,—to praise them
 7 Menex|         It is easy to praise the Athenians among the Athenians,’ from
 8 Menex|          the Athenians among the Athenians,’ from the Funeral Oration,
 9 Menex|         Had the orator to praise Athenians among Peloponnesians, or
10 Menex|          or Peloponnesians among Athenians, he must be a good rhetorician
11 Menex|         if he were to praise the Athenians among the Athenians.~MENEXENUS:
12 Menex|          the Athenians among the Athenians.~MENEXENUS: And what would
13 Menex|        you were saying, that the Athenians were going to choose a speaker,
14 Menex|          bring the Eretrians and Athenians to the king, if he wished
15 Menex| intention, expecting to bind the Athenians in the same yoke of necessity
16 Menex|      either the Eretrians or the Athenians, except the Lacedaemonians,
17 Menex|    Lacedaemonians as well as the Athenians took part in the struggle;
18 Menex|          superior prowess of the Athenians in the former war with the