Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|    lest, as Phaedrus says, the argument should be too ‘abstract
 2 Phaedr|  weight can be attached to the argument that Plato must have visited
 3 Phaedr|  fortunes, their impatience of argument, their indifference to first
 4 Phaedr|      to him, he used this very argument—that he ought to accept
 5 Phaedr|        think that our previous argument has been too abstract and
 6 Phaedr|    madly;’ and madness was the argument of them, for, as I said, ‘
 7 Phaedr|     truth, and who by force of argument make the little appear great
 8 Phaedr|    examine and see whether his argument agrees with his conception
 9 Phaedr|        by a particular form of argument, and another not.~PHAEDRUS:
10 Phaedr|        ought to have a certain argument applied to him in order
11 Phaedr|      such as yours. Truly, the argument may say, Tisias, that if
12 Phaedr| implied in the whole preceding argument.~PHAEDRUS: Yes, that was
13 Phaedr| censured— did not our previous argument show—?~PHAEDRUS: Show what?~