Dialogue

1 Menex|   authority is mostly in the hands of the people, who dispense
2 Menex|      from sea to sea, joined hands and passed through the whole
3 Menex|   received defeat at our own hands. Afterwards there was quiet
4 Menex|   then fell by one another’s hands, and on such occasions as
5 Menex|     severely suffered at her hands and severely retaliated,
6 Menex| fathers, she places in their hands the instruments of their