Dialogue

 1 Menex|   Socrates. The address of the dead to the living at the end
 2 Menex|        to the existence of the dead. But in the Menexenus a
 3 Menex|      who was to speak over the dead. For you know that there
 4 Menex|    respects a noble thing. The dead man gets a fine and costly
 5 Menex|       oration about these very dead. For she had been told,
 6 Menex|        with the mention of the dead:— (Thucyd.)~There is a tribute
 7 Menex|     which will duly praise the dead and gently admonish the
 8 Menex| lamenting over us. But, if the dead have any knowledge of the
 9 Menex|    children and parents of the dead, is the message which they
10 Menex|     who are the parents of the dead. And the care of you which
11 Menex|        fathers. And as for the dead, she never ceases honouring
12 Menex|      every sort. She is to the dead in the place of a son and
13 Menex|        be most endeared to the dead and to the living, and your
14 Menex|       all, having lamented the dead in common according to the