Dialogue

 1 Menex|        having been invented by Aspasia is well sustained, and is
 2 Menex|     having learned of a woman, Aspasia, the mistress of Pericles;
 3 Menex|       because he had learnt of Aspasia, is not coarse, as Schleiermacher
 4 Menex|     beating from his mistress, Aspasia: this is the natural exaggeration
 5 Menex|        I suppose that you mean Aspasia.~SOCRATES: Yes, I do; and
 6 Menex| nothing; but yesterday I heard Aspasia composing a funeral oration
 7 Menex|      And can you remember what Aspasia said?~SOCRATES: I ought
 8 Menex|       have the speech, whether Aspasia’s or any one else’s, no
 9 Menex|      Menexenus, the oration of Aspasia the Milesian.~MENEXENUS:
10 Menex|        Socrates, I marvel that Aspasia, who is only a woman, should
11 Menex|    MENEXENUS: I have often met Aspasia, Socrates, and know what