The Apology
   Part
 1 Intro|    compared generally with those speeches of Thucydides in which he


Cratylus
   Part
 2 Intro|          speaker or contriver of speeches. ‘Well said Cratylus, then,
 3 Text |        the contriver of tales or speeches, you may rightly call him
 4 Text |          I am not a good hand at speeches.~SOCRATES: There is also


Euthydemus
   Part
 5 Intro|       the art of the composer of speeches, who knows how to write
 6 Intro|          but a great composer of speeches.’ Socrates understands that
 7 Text |          to speak and to compose speeches which will have an effect
 8 Text |          learn the art of making speeches— would that be the art which
 9 Text |      there are some composers of speeches who do not know how to use
10 Text |          not know how to use the speeches which they make, just as
11 Text |     themselves unable to compose speeches, but are able to use the
12 Text |          but are able to use the speeches which the others make for
13 Text |    proves that the art of making speeches is not the same as the art
14 Text |     proof that the art of making speeches is not one which will make
15 Text |  direction; for the composers of speeches, whenever I meet them, always
16 Text |        of orators, who makes the speeches with which they do battle?~
17 Text |           and composes wonderful speeches.~SOCRATES: Now I understand,


The First Alcibiades
   Part
18 Pre  |         a mimetic work, like the speeches in the Phaedrus, and cannot


Gorgias
   Part
19 Text |    improve the citizens by their speeches, or are they too, like the
20 Text |        day that he began to make speeches? for, indeed, I do not know
21 Text |       just now, at any rate, the speeches which I am making are long


Laws
   Book
22 4    |       any more than all songs or speeches; although they may be natural
23 7    |         choice passages and long speeches, and make compendiums of
24 9    |      make another; and after the speeches have been made the eldest


Menexenus
   Part
25 Pre  |         a mimetic work, like the speeches in the Phaedrus, and cannot
26 Text |       say? Every rhetorician has speeches ready made; nor is there
27 Text |        other excellent political speeches of hers.~MENEXENUS: Fear


Meno
   Part
28 Text |        of an infinite variety of speeches about virtue before now,


Parmenides
   Part
29 Intro|  Zenonian dialectic, just as the speeches in the Phaedrus are an imitation


Phaedrus
   Part
30 Intro|    himself, and leave off making speeches, for the politicians have
31 Intro|  arguments in the law courts and speeches in the assembly; it is rather
32 Intro|      that they shall use the two speeches as illustrations of the
33 Intro|    return to the Phaedrus:—~Both speeches are strongly condemned by
34 Intro|         the formality of the two speeches (Socrates has a sense of
35 Intro|         seems to be that the two speeches proceed upon the supposition
36 Intro|       probable matter. The three speeches are then passed in review:
37 Text |          make an equal number of speeches. I would except Simmias
38 Text |        was the error of both the speeches. There was also a simplicity
39 Text |       anything rude in our first speeches, blame Lysias, who is the
40 Text |    induce him to give up writing speeches.~SOCRATES: What a very amusing
41 Text | statesmen are ashamed of writing speeches and leaving them in a written
42 Text |        are so fond as of writing speeches and bequeathing them to
43 Text |       SOCRATES: Yes; and the two speeches happen to afford a very
44 Text |      what way?~SOCRATES: The two speeches, as you may remember, were
45 Text |        to which he addresses his speeches; and this, I conceive, to
46 Text |        having classified men and speeches, and their kinds and affections,
47 Text |    analysis, he will next divide speeches into their different classes:—‘
48 Text |          the same may be said of speeches. You would imagine that
49 Text |        and to other composers of speeches—to Homer and other writers


Philebus
   Part
50 Intro|        general design. As in the speeches of Thucydides, the multiplication


Protagoras
   Part
51 Intro|     allusion to Protagoras’ long speeches. (3) The manifest futility
52 Intro|          e.g. with the two first speeches in the Phaedrus and with
53 Text |         cannot manage these long speeches: I only wish that I could.


The Republic
   Book
54 2    |          I judged only from your speeches I should have mistrusted
55 3    | narrative it remains both in the speeches which the poet recites from


The Sophist
   Part
56 Intro|        be either a maker of long speeches, or of shorter speeches
57 Intro|          speeches, or of shorter speeches which compel the person
58 Intro|     himself. The maker of longer speeches is the popular orator; the
59 Text |        they?~STRANGER: When long speeches are answered by long speeches,
60 Text |    speeches are answered by long speeches, and there is public discussion
61 Text |          in private and in short speeches compels the person who is
62 Text |          the maker of the longer speeches? Is he the statesman or


The Symposium
   Part
63 Intro|           noise’ they shall make speeches in honour of love, one after
64 Intro|          of love.~The successive speeches in praise of love are characteristic
65 Intro| Memorabilia (compare Symp.).~The speeches have been said to follow
66 Intro|         is given by Diotima.~The speeches are attested to us by the
67 Intro|   himself regards the first five speeches, not as true, but as fanciful
68 Intro|          transposes the two next speeches, as in the Republic he would
69 Intro|          artist.~All the earlier speeches embody common opinions coloured
70 Text |          might ask you about the speeches in praise of love, which
71 Text |   contented if we hear some good speeches first. Let Phaedrus begin
72 Text |         Phaedrus; and some other speeches followed which Aristodemus