Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|         Delphi, if he keeps his word. Some raillery ensues, and
 2 Phaedr|         animal who is guided by word and admonition only, the
 3 Phaedr|         better than the written word, and that the principles
 4 Phaedr|         truth when delivered by word of mouth are the legitimate
 5 Phaedr|         spoken over the written word. The continuous thread which
 6 Phaedr| contrast of the living and dead word, and the example of Socrates,
 7 Phaedr|       embodied in a person, the Word made flesh. Something like
 8 Phaedr|        accent, or the uses of a word, took the place of the aim
 9 Phaedr|         for, indeed, I know the word that is irresistible.~SOCRATES:
10 Phaedr|         Yes, but I will; and my word shall be an oath. ‘I say,
11 Phaedr|     another; never let you have word of another!’~SOCRATES: Villain!
12 Phaedr|  discourse; but as every spoken word is in a manner plainer than
13 Phaedr|         that I have to say in a word, and pass on. Such a person
14 Phaedr|     began thus,—~‘False is that word of mine—the truth is that
15 Phaedr|        former discourse was the word of Phaedrus, the son of
16 Phaedr|     termed oionoistike, but the word has been lately altered
17 Phaedr|      the whip, but is guided by word and admonition only. The
18 Phaedr|        steed of the lover has a word to say to the charioteer;
19 Phaedr|       of the beloved says not a word, for he is bursting with
20 Phaedr|       all agree to use the same word.~PHAEDRUS: You mean that
21 Phaedr|      discovered. Shall we say a word to him or not?~PHAEDRUS:
22 Phaedr|       the idea that the written word would be intelligible or
23 Phaedr|       there not another kind of word or speech far better than
24 Phaedr| SOCRATES: I mean an intelligent word graven in the soul of the
25 Phaedr|   PHAEDRUS: You mean the living word of knowledge which has a
26 Phaedr|        and of which the written word is properly no more than
27 Phaedr|      thinks that in the written word there is necessarily much
28 Phaedr|         in the first place, the word which he finds in his own