Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|     literary compositions. Any ancient work which is worth reading
 2 Phaedr|     superficial manner of some ancient critics, that a dialogue
 3 Phaedr| Sophists and rhetoricians from ancient famous men and women such
 4 Phaedr|        so hopelessly below the ancient standard of classical Greek
 5 Phaedr| produced, the great writers of ancient or of modern times will
 6 Phaedr|      cannot go along with you. Ancient sages, men and women, who
 7 Phaedr|         And I bethink me of an ancient purgation of mythological
 8 Phaedr|     reason in appealing to the ancient inventors of names (compare
 9 Phaedr|        families, owing to some ancient blood-guiltiness, there
10 Phaedr| adorning the myriad actions of ancient heroes for the instruction