Dialogue

 1 Intro|        with Socrates by making long orations. In this character
 2 Intro|    perplexity thus created, so long as the mind, lost in the
 3 Intro| neither do I think that he can long escape me, for every way
 4 Intro|       sits,’ which is not very long, ‘Theaetetus’ is the subject,
 5 Intro|       may be either a maker of long speeches, or of shorter
 6 Intro|        only as the result of a long and tedious enquiry; by
 7  Soph|       are accustomed to make a long oration on a subject which
 8  Soph|     talk, to be spinning out a long soliloquy or address, as
 9  Soph|       will certainly be a very long one, a great deal longer
10  Soph|     defined; and the world has long ago agreed, that if great
11  Soph|       are they?~STRANGER: When long speeches are answered by
12  Soph|       speeches are answered by long speeches, and there is public
13  Soph|       I should have to think a long while.~STRANGER: In all
14  Soph|        to that enquiry we have long said good-bye—it may or
15  Soph|   convince us of error, or, so long as he cannot, he too must
16  Soph|    Theaetetus sits’—not a very long sentence.~THEAETETUS: Not
17  Soph|       multitude in public in a long speech, and the dissembler,