Dialogue

 1 Menex|      writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence
 2 Menex|      motive or some affinity to spurious writings can be detected,
 3 Menex|        that they are genuine or spurious. They may have been written
 4 Menex|    considered decisive of their spurious character. For who always
 5 Menex| demarcation between genuine and spurious writings of Plato. They
 6 Menex|        the reader may be partly spurious and partly genuine; they
 7 Menex|          they may be altogether spurious;—that is an alternative
 8 Menex|        they can be proved to be spurious, as is often maintained
 9 Menex| confident that the Epistles are spurious, as that the Republic, the
10 Menex|        Demosthenes is a bad and spurious imitation of Thucydides