Dialogue

 1 Menex|        virtue, and consoling their fathers and mothers and the survivors,
 2 Menex|         they were sprung from good fathers. Wherefore let us first
 3 Menex| descendants sojourners only, whose fathers have come from another country;
 4 Menex|       wisdom.~And so their and our fathers, and these, too, our brethren,
 5 Menex|            this land, who were our fathers, held them back. Of these
 6 Menex|      assert that those men are the fathers not only of ourselves, but
 7 Menex|            now to repeat what your fathers desired to have said to
 8 Menex|         the event proves that your fathers were brave men; for we might
 9 Menex|      rather than dishonour our own fathers and forefathers; considering
10 Menex|         children.~‘Some of us have fathers and mothers still living,
11 Menex|         will be truly deemed brave fathers of the brave. But if they
12 Menex|           time. And we entreat our fathers and mothers to retain these
13 Menex|          children, to imitate your fathers, and you, parents, to be
14 Menex|            they will see that your fathers and mothers have no wrong
15 Menex|            minds the ways of their fathers, she places in their hands
16 Menex|           the instruments of their fathers’ virtues; for the sake of
17 Menex|         strength and arms of their fathers. And as for the dead, she