The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |         Lycon, on behalf of the rhetoricians: and as I said at the beginning,


Cratylus
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 2 Intro|        a species of sophists or rhetoricians, and so called apo tou erotan,
 3 Text |       must have been skilful as rhetoricians and dialecticians, and able
 4 Text |       the heroes turn out to be rhetoricians and questioners. All this


Euthydemus
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 5 Text |         Ctesippus.~Well, but do rhetoricians, when they speak in the


Gorgias
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 6 Intro|        even greater. Not merely rhetoricians, but poets, musicians, and
 7 Intro|        replies that at any rate rhetoricians, like despots, have great
 8 Intro|       enemy of the Sophists and rhetoricians; and also of the statesmen,
 9 Intro|        you mean to say that the rhetoricians are esteemed flatterers?’
10 Intro|   another. Statesmen, Sophists, rhetoricians, poets, are alike brought
11 Intro| similarity. The poets, like the rhetoricians, are condemned because they
12 Text |      are able to make other men rhetoricians?~GORGIAS: Yes, that is exactly
13 Text |     rhetorician, and a maker of rhetoricians, let me ask you, with what
14 Text |         will advise and not the rhetoricians: what do you say, Gorgias?
15 Text |      rhetorician and a maker of rhetoricians, I cannot do better than
16 Text |       given in such matters the rhetoricians are the advisers; they are
17 Text |         POLUS: And are the good rhetoricians meanly regarded in states,
18 Text |       not say just now that the rhetoricians are like tyrants, and that
19 Text |         I tell you, Polus, that rhetoricians and tyrants have the least
20 Text |    leave me unrefuted, why, the rhetoricians who do what they think best
21 Text |      SOCRATES: How then can the rhetoricians or the tyrants have great
22 Text |       me after the manner which rhetoricians practise in courts of law.
23 Text | Archelaus and other tyrants and rhetoricians and potentates? (Compare
24 Text |      theatres seem to you to be rhetoricians?~CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
25 Text |         in other states? Do the rhetoricians appear to you always to
26 Text |         therefore, if they were rhetoricians, they did not use the true


Menexenus
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27 Intro|       show that he can beat the rhetoricians in their own line, as in
28 Intro|       and on the whole tribe of rhetoricians is transparent.~The ironical
29 Text |          Such is the art of our rhetoricians, and in such manner does
30 Text |        always making fun of the rhetoricians, Socrates; this time, however,


Phaedrus
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31 Intro|        are themselves the great rhetoricians of the age, who desire to
32 Intro|        always being confused by rhetoricians with the preliminaries of
33 Intro|       pedantic reasoning of the rhetoricians newly imported from Sicily,
34 Intro|        exhibited as beating the rhetoricians at their own weapons; he ‘
35 Intro|        superior of the Athenian rhetoricians. Even in the speech of Lysias
36 Intro|         not by the rules of the rhetoricians.~In this latter portion
37 Intro|      The first of the two great rhetoricians is described as in the zenith
38 Intro|       he aims his shafts at the rhetoricians. The profession of rhetoric
39 Intro|         abide the tricks of the rhetoricians, or the pedantries and mannerisms
40 Intro|    which separates Sophists and rhetoricians from ancient famous men
41 Text |    inspired me, were far better rhetoricians than Lysias the son of Cephalus.
42 Text |     feeling as I have about the rhetoricians? To me there seem to be
43 Text |        the most accomplished of rhetoricians.~PHAEDRUS: What of that?~
44 Text |      older, and that all former rhetoricians will be as children in comparison


Philebus
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45 Intro|        towards the sophists and rhetoricians was not mitigated in later


The Sophist
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46 Intro|        creature has many heads: rhetoricians, lawyers, statesmen, poets,


The Symposium
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47 Intro|  feebleness of the sophists and rhetoricians, through their pupils, not
48 Intro|       be the most consummate of rhetoricians (compare Menexenus).~The


Theaetetus
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49 Intro|       and states. Wise and good rhetoricians make the good to appear
50 Text |     ones; and the wise and good rhetoricians make the good instead of