Dialogue

 1 Menex|       spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much
 2 Menex|          which equally affect all evidence to the genuineness of ancient
 3 Menex|         attempting to balance the evidence for and against a Platonic
 4 Menex|        have an inferior degree of evidence in their favour. They may
 5 Menex|           the greater part of the evidence for the genuineness of ancient
 6 Menex| uniformity of tradition—a kind of evidence, which though in many cases
 7 Menex|          of internal and external evidence, we are able with equal
 8 Menex|          absence of real external evidence (for the catalogues of the
 9 Menex|          are certainly degrees of evidence by which they are supported.
10 Menex|      weight (chiefly) of internal evidence in their favour. Nor, on
11 Menex|           disproven until further evidence about them can be adduced.
12 Menex| genuineness of the work. Internal evidence seems to leave the question