Dialogue

1 Menex|   emulate Thucydides, and the far slighter work of Lysias.
2 Menex| Hellenic interest, falls very far short of the rugged grandeur
3 Menex|       whose teachers had been far inferior to his own—say,
4 Menex|  youth in old age.~MENEXENUS: Far otherwise, Socrates; let
5 Menex|     over the rest of Asia, as far as Egypt; and after him
6 Menex|        wholly, and if not, as far as is possible,—who is not
7 Menex|     the children, desiring as far as it is possible that their