Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|          that he shall never again hear a speech of Lysias unless
 2 Phaedr|            persuade the ‘birds’ to hear him, retiring a little behind
 3 Phaedr|     discourse?~PHAEDRUS: You shall hear, if you can spare time to
 4 Phaedr|           my part, I do so long to hear his speech, that if you
 5 Phaedr|            will excuse me when you hear the reason, which is, that
 6 Phaedr|            they, and where did you hear anything better than this?~
 7 Phaedr| responsibility rests with you. But hear what follows, and perhaps
 8 Phaedr|          and everybody, and has to hear misplaced and exaggerated
 9 Phaedr|            agreeable to me than to hear you say so.~SOCRATES: Only
10 Phaedr|            listen now; lest, if he hear me not, he should accept
11 Phaedr|          art at all. But I seem to hear them arraying themselves
12 Phaedr|           of art.~PHAEDRUS: Let me hear.~SOCRATES: Oratory is the
13 Phaedr|         speaking we should like to hear him; but if not, we are