Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|         teach how to be short or long at pleasure. Prodicus showed
 2 Phaedr|       than either to be short or long, which was to be of convenient
 3 Phaedr|          how, after a time at no long intervals, first one and
 4 Phaedr|       were Euhemerists in Hellas long before Euhemerus. Early
 5 Phaedr|         this, like several other long periods in the history of
 6 Phaedr| benefactor. For my part, I do so long to hear his speech, that
 7 Phaedr|   rhetorician of the age spent a long time in composing. Indeed,
 8 Phaedr|          unless it was unusually long, and he went to a place
 9 Phaedr|        they think that they have long ago made to the beloved
10 Phaedr|    embrace him, and probably not long afterwards his desire is
11 Phaedr|       put another as fine and as long as yours into the field,
12 Phaedr|       pleasure turns out to be a long and tedious affair.) of
13 Phaedr|        the proverb is really the long arm of the Nile. And you
14 Phaedr|        elbow of theirs is also a long arm. For there is nothing
15 Phaedr|      admirers in what is often a long and tedious composition.
16 Phaedr|         on the tomb of Midas; So long as water flows and tall
17 Phaedr|          and tall trees grow, So long here on this spot by his
18 Phaedr|          which was to be neither long nor short, but of a convenient
19 Phaedr|         knows how to make a very long speech about a small matter,
20 Phaedr|      there is no use in taking a long rough roundabout way if
21 Phaedr|          therefore if the way is long and circuitous, marvel not
22 Phaedr|         of them. It would take a long time to repeat all that
23 Phaedr|  compositions, which he has been long patching and piecing, adding