Plato, Gorgias, section 466a

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[466a] but if I can make some use of them, allow me to do it; that will only be fair. And now, if you can make any use of this answer of mine, do so.

Polus
Then what is it you say? Do you take rhetoric to be flattery?

Socrates
Well, I said rather a branch of flattery. Why, at your age, Polus, have you no memory? What will you do later on?

Polus
Then do you think that good orators are considered to be flatterers in their cities, and so worthless?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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Commentary references to this page (4):
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 458c
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 463d
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 469a
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 505d
Cross-references to this page (1):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.pos=2.2
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (2):
- LSJ, ἀποτείνω
- LSJ, μέν