Dialogue

 1 Menex|  compared with his later ones, say the Protagoras or Phaedrus
 2 Menex|        discussions; but should say of some of them, that their
 3 Menex|        far inferior to his own—say, one who had learned from
 4 Menex|        as fanciful. Nor can we say that the offer of Socrates
 5 Menex| Phaedrus he has heard somebody say something— is inspired by
 6 Menex|        prepared what he has to say, although he who is praised
 7 Menex|   chosen will not have much to say, for he has been called
 8 Menex|   should he not have plenty to say? Every rhetorician has speeches
 9 Menex|      of very inferior masters, say, for example, one who had
10 Menex|      what would you be able to say if you had to speak?~SOCRATES:
11 Menex|       have their reward, and I say no more of them; but there
12 Menex|      might have many things to say—of the assaults which they
13 Menex|     Hellenes. And why should I say more? for the events of
14 Menex|     tell you what I heard them say, and what, if they had only
15 Menex|    This is all that we have to say to our families: and to
16 Menex|      and to the state we would say—Take care of our parents