Dialogue

 1 Menex| sentences, and in the use of words, if his earlier writings
 2 Menex|   opening and the concluding words bear a great resemblance
 3 Menex|     as self-convicted by the words of Socrates. For the disparaging
 4 Menex|     Rhetoric, the well-known words, ‘It is easy to praise the
 5 Menex| souls with their embellished words; in every conceivable form
 6 Menex|     stand listening to their words, Menexenus, and become enchanted
 7 Menex|      does the sound of their words keep ringing in my ears.~
 8 Menex|      tribute of deeds and of words. The departed have already
 9 Menex|      friends; the tribute of words remains to be given to them,
10 Menex|      law ordained. For noble words are a memorial and a crown
11 Menex|    world below. Remember our words, then, and whatever is your
12 Menex|       but if you neglect our words and are disgraced in your