Platos Gorgias
SOCRATES: How fortunate! will you ask him, Chaerephon?
CHAEREPHON: And do you, Polus, think that you can answer better than Gorgias?
CHAEREPHON: What shall I ask him?
POLUS: What does that matter if I answer well enough for SOCRATES: Ask him who he is.
you?
CHAEREPHON: What do you mean?
CHAEREPHON: Not at all:and you shall answer if you like.
SOCRATES: I mean such a question as would elicit from POLUS: Ask:
him, if he had been a maker of shoes, the answer that he is a cobbler. Do you understand?
CHAEREPHON: My question is this: If Gorgias had the skill of his brother Herodicus, what ought we to call him?
CHAEREPHON: I understand, and will ask him: Tell me, Ought he not to have the name which is given to his brother?
Gorgias, is our friend Callicles right in saying that you undertake to answer any questions which you are asked?
POLUS: Certainly.
GORGIAS: Quite right, Chaerephon: I was saying as much CHAEREPHON: Then we should be right in calling him only just now; and I may add, that many years have elapsed a physician?
since any one has asked me a new one.
POLUS: Yes.
CHAEREPHON: Then you must be very ready, Gorgias.
CHAEREPHON: And if he had the skill of Aristophon GORGIAS: Of that, Chaerephon, you can make trial.
the son of Aglaophon, or of his brother Polygnotus, what ought we to call him?
POLUS: Yes, indeed, and if you like, Chaerephon, you may make trial of me too, for I think that Gorgias, who has POLUS: Clearly, a painter.
been talking a long time, is tired.