Dialogue

1 Menex|  lived and made themselves a government, which I ought briefly to
2 Menex|  briefly to commemorate. For government is the nurture of man, and
3 Menex|      nurture of man, and the government of good men is good, and
4 Menex|    were trained under a good government, and for this reason they
5 Menex|      speaking generally, our government was an aristocracy—a form
6 Menex|     an aristocracy—a form of government which receives various names,
7 Menex|     really an aristocracy or government of the best which has the
8 Menex| ruler. The basis of this our government is equality of birth; for