Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|    playfully or as a figure of speech. But in the Phaedrus and
 2 Phaedr|        he has delivered up the speech with which Lysias has regaled
 3 Phaedr|     scents, they will read the speech of Lysias. The country is
 4 Phaedr|         Phaedrus pulls out the speech and reads:—~The speech consists
 5 Phaedr|     the speech and reads:—~The speech consists of a foolish paradox
 6 Phaedr|       within him, could make a speech better than that of Lysias
 7 Phaedr|     prospect of having another speech, and promises that he will
 8 Phaedr|       shall never again hear a speech of Lysias unless he fulfils
 9 Phaedr|         non-lover’ part of the speech had better be understood,
10 Phaedr|      no such definition in the speech of Lysias; nor is there
11 Phaedr| regular divisions of the other speech, which was his own (and
12 Phaedr|    that writing is inferior to speech. For it is like a picture,
13 Phaedr|       to please Phaedrus.’ The speech of Lysias which has thrown
14 Phaedr|      false rhetoric; the first speech of Socrates, though an improvement,
15 Phaedr|     same character; his second speech, which is full of that higher
16 Phaedr| another; and the true order of speech or writing proceeds accordingly.
17 Phaedr|       s higher aims.~The first speech is composed ‘in that balanced
18 Phaedr|       Pericles. That the first speech was really written by Lysias
19 Phaedr|       elsewhere.~In the second speech Socrates is exhibited as
20 Phaedr|      however, profess that the speech which he makes is not his
21 Phaedr|         the superiority of his speech seems to consist chiefly
22 Phaedr|      rhetoricians. Even in the speech of Lysias there is a germ
23 Phaedr|      Having improvised his own speech, which is based upon the
24 Phaedr|      an allegory, or figure of speech. For this reason, it is
25 Phaedr|      by Socrates in figures of speech which would not be used
26 Phaedr|      Plato to the paradox that speech is superior to writing,
27 Phaedr|        to have misled him. For speech and writing have really
28 Phaedr|     mind when he affirmed that speech was superior to writing.
29 Phaedr|       between the tone of this speech and the remark of Socrates
30 Phaedr|      which they introduce into speech and writing. He sees clearly
31 Phaedr|       I do so long to hear his speech, that if you walk all the
32 Phaedr|        I am very sure that the speech of Lysias was repeated to
33 Phaedr|      the especial merit of the speech; for he omitted no topic
34 Phaedr|      that I could make another speech as good as that of Lysias,
35 Phaedr|    mark, and that I can make a speech from which all his arguments
36 Phaedr|       make a longer and better speech than Lysias, and use other
37 Phaedr|      unbosomed yourself of the speech; for here are we all alone,
38 Phaedr|    with Lysias in an extempore speech! He is a master in his art
39 Phaedr|      of the brave, the slow of speech of the speaker, the dull
40 Phaedr|        going to make a similar speech about all the advantages
41 Phaedr|  SOCRATES: That was a dreadful speech which you brought with you,
42 Phaedr|      PHAEDRUS: Nothing, if the speech was really such as you describe.~
43 Phaedr|  acknowledged by Lysias in his speech, nor by you in that other
44 Phaedr|       nor by you in that other speech which you by a charm drew
45 Phaedr|     account; and called him a ‘speech writer’ again and again.
46 Phaedr|       the rules of writing and speech as we were proposing?~PHAEDRUS:
47 Phaedr|      this, went and composed a speech in honour of an ass, whom
48 Phaedr|     our notion of them, in the speech of Lysias which you have
49 Phaedr|       your hand, and in my own speech?~PHAEDRUS: Nothing could
50 Phaedr|     the first words of Lysias’ speech.~PHAEDRUS: ‘You know how
51 Phaedr|    love at the beginning of my speech? for, having been in an
52 Phaedr|    commencement of his lover’s speech did insist on our supposing
53 Phaedr|       more about your friend’s speech lest I should give offence
54 Phaedr|      will proceed to the other speech, which, as I think, is also
55 Phaedr|      exordium, showing how the speech should begin, if I remember
56 Phaedr|      agree in asserting that a speech should end in a recapitulation,
57 Phaedr|        how to make a very long speech about a small matter, and
58 Phaedr|      small matter, and a short speech about a great matter, and
59 Phaedr|   matter, and also a sorrowful speech, or a terrible, or threatening
60 Phaedr|       terrible, or threatening speech, or any other kind of speech,
61 Phaedr|   speech, or any other kind of speech, and in teaching this fancies
62 Phaedr|        by this or that kind of speech in this or that way,’ and
63 Phaedr|     and all the other modes of speech which he has learned;—when,
64 Phaedr|    this principle throughout a speech furnishes the whole art.~
65 Phaedr|        another kind of word or speech far better than this, and
66 Phaedr|        that the simple form of speech may be addressed to the