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1001 Menex|             as that the Republic, the Timaeus, and the Laws are genuine.~
1002 Menex|          binding, or even of distinct titles. An unknown writing was
1003 Menex|             and to help them in their toils. And when she had herself
1004 Menex|            delayed the election until tomorrow, but I believe that either
1005 Menex|               that vice is ignorance, traces of a Platonic authorship.
1006 Menex|     excellence; and (2) uniformity of tradition—a kind of evidence, which
1007 Menex|               they are supported. The traditions of the oral discourses both
1008 Menex|               that our ancestors were trained under a good government,
1009 Menex|         dialogue has several Platonic traits, whether original or imitated
1010 Menex|         writings of some contemporary transferred by accident to the more
1011 Menex|             of political and literary transition? Certainly not Plato, whose
1012 Menex|            and he sent 500,000 men in transports and vessels of war, and
1013 Menex|              battle of Corinth, or by treason at Lechaeum. Brave men,
1014 Menex|               on him and on the whole tribe of rhetoricians is transparent.~
1015 Menex|            later period many Hellenic tribes were still on the side of
1016 Menex|         conscious of having a sort of triumph over them, and they seem
1017 Menex|              she could not forget the trophies of Marathon and Salamis
1018 Menex|              offspring. And these are truer proofs of motherhood in
1019 Menex|      librarians cannot be regarded as trustworthy); and (2) in the absence
1020 Menex|          Funeral Oration, may perhaps turn the balance in its favour.
1021 Menex|            task. Socrates himself has turned rhetorician, having learned
1022 Menex|            everything in his own life turning out according to his will;
1023 Menex|              Academy, during the last twenty years of Plato’s life. Nor
1024 Menex|                conformed to a regular type. They began with Gods and
1025 Menex|    governments are unequal; there are tyrannies and there are oligarchies,
1026 Menex|             order the war against the tyrants in Eleusis, and in a manner
1027 Menex|            for Menexenus, is any more un-Platonic than the threat of physical
1028 Menex|             perhaps infer that he was unacquainted with a second dialogue bearing
1029 Menex|              the foreigner has passed unadulterated into the life-blood of the
1030 Menex|              to this day we are still unconquered by them; but we were our
1031 Menex|             but we are pure Hellenes, uncontaminated by any foreign element,
1032 Menex|               superior to the rest in understanding, and alone has justice and
1033 Menex|           been ascribed to Plato, are undoubtedly genuine. There is another
1034 Menex|              or enmity, but they were unfortunate. And that such was the fact
1035 Menex|               country, which was very ungrateful of them; and our countrymen,
1036 Menex|             be guilty of the base and unholy act of giving up Hellenes
1037 Menex|                1) excellence; and (2) uniformity of tradition—a kind of evidence,
1038 Menex|           even of distinct titles. An unknown writing was naturally attributed
1039 Menex|           restored those who had been unrighteously exiled. And they were the
1040 Menex|             isolated, because we were unwilling to be guilty of the base
1041 Menex|                On the other hand, the upholders of the genuineness of the
1042 Menex|          enough of them, are mounting upwards to things higher still,
1043 Menex|         considerable objection can be urged against them, though greatly
1044 Menex|         physical force which Phaedrus uses towards Socrates. Nor is
1045 Menex|           which I do deliver with the utmost seriousness. And in their
1046 Menex|               He is the temperate and valiant and wise; and when his riches
1047 Menex|               and in many respects at variance with the Symposium in the
1048 Menex|              and dates, and casting a veil over the gloomier events
1049 Menex|            and Salamis. The Menexenus veils in panegyric the weak places
1050 Menex|        Hellenes looked back when they ventured to fight for their own safety
1051 Menex|               any of them, though not verified by the testimony of Aristotle,
1052 Menex|               this gentleness was the veritable tie of blood, which created
1053 Menex|             000 men in transports and vessels of war, and 300 ships, and
1054 Menex|         absurdum of the doctrine that vice is ignorance, traces of
1055 Menex|             men, or changing with the vicissitude of their fortune,—has his
1056 Menex|            lives—many of them had won victories in Sicily, whither they
1057 Menex|               you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn
1058 Menex|            his dissimulation. Without violating the character of Socrates,
1059 Menex|            the Axiochus, De justo, De virtute, Demodocus, Sisyphus, Eryxias,
1060 Menex|           before Christ was almost as voluminous as our own, and without
1061 Menex|            but she allowed exiles and volunteers to assist him, and they
1062 Menex|              the noblest end which is vouchsafed to man, and should be glorified
1063 Menex|       Socrates. Nor is there any real vulgarity in the fear which Socrates
1064 Menex|              praise are they also who waged this war, and are here interred;
1065 Menex|            king fearing this city and wanting to stand aloof, when he
1066 Menex|               that it was possible to ward off the barbarians by land,
1067 Menex|              lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors,
1068 Menex|            entrusted with the duty of watching over them above all other
1069 Menex|      Menexenus veils in panegyric the weak places of Athenian history.
1070 Menex|             and too favourable to the weaker side. And in this instance
1071 Menex|        Neither is a man rejected from weakness or poverty or obscurity
1072 Menex|              and the finale certainly wear the look either of Plato
1073 Menex|            the Lacedaemonians growing weary of the war at sea, asked
1074 Menex|           greatly overbalanced by the weight (chiefly) of internal evidence
1075 Menex|               your lives, no one will welcome or receive you. This is
1076 Menex|          quotes, in the Rhetoric, the well-known words, ‘It is easy to praise
1077      | whatever
1078 Menex|            first of all brought forth wheat and barley for human food,
1079      | Whence
1080      | whenever
1081      | where
1082      | Whereas
1083 Menex|             from his later ones by as wide an interval of philosophical
1084 Menex|             diverse animals, tame and wild, she our mother was free
1085 Menex|             the argument ‘whither the wind blows.’ That no conclusion
1086 Menex|               be—that is our word and wish, and as such we now offer
1087 Menex|            speak?~SOCRATES: Of my own wit, most likely nothing; but
1088 Menex|             might have a pretence for withdrawing from us. About the other
1089 Menex|             the fact we ourselves are witnesses, who are of the same race
1090 Menex|               care and nurture of our wives and children, they will
1091 Menex|        influence of the speaker, more wonderful than ever. This consciousness
1092 Menex|             sung, and which are still wooing the poet’s muse. Of these
1093 Menex|            While we gently heal their wounds, let us remind them that
1094 Menex|            justice to himself, or who writes with equal care at all times?
1095 Menex|           fathers and mothers have no wrong done to them. The city herself
1096 Menex|         Hellenes—Pericles, the son of Xanthippus.~MENEXENUS: And who is she?
1097 Menex|           dialogue may be detected in Xen. Mem., and there is no similar
1098 Menex|              most likely nothing; but yesterday I heard Aspasia composing
1099 Menex|             multitude of riches alike yield to valour. And I assert
1100 Menex|             the Athenians in the same yoke of necessity in which they