Dialogue

 1 Menex| excellence with length. A really great and original writer would
 2 Menex|      considerable length, of (3) great excellence, and also (4)
 3 Menex|   although in the case of really great works, e.g. the Phaedo,
 4 Menex|       may remark that one or two great writings, such as the Parmenides
 5 Menex|        fifty years, in an age of great intellectual activity, as
 6 Menex|           intended to rival that great work. If genuine, the proper
 7 Menex|          concluding words bear a great resemblance to the earlier
 8 Menex|         political insight of the great historian. The fiction of
 9 Menex|        fault of the city was too great kindness to their enemies,
10 Menex|       Aristophanic humour. How a great original genius like Plato
11 Menex|    should be able to speak is no great wonder, Menexenus, considering
12 Menex|      justice and religion. And a great proof that she brought forth
13 Menex|      there was a report that the great king was going to make a
14 Menex|      themselves. Whereas, to the great king she refused to give