Plato, Gorgias, section 449c

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[449c] however, I will try to be as brief as possible; for indeed it is one of my claims that no one could express the same thing in briefer terms than myself.

Socrates
That is just what I want, Gorgias: give me a display of this very skill—in brevity of speech; your lengthy style will do another time.

Gorgias
Well, I will do that, and you will admit that you never heard anyone speak more briefly.

Socrates
Come then; since you claim to be skilled in rhetorical art,

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, 451a
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 451d
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 461d
- J. Adam, A. M. Adam, Commentary on Plato, Protagoras, CHAPTER XXII
Cross-references to this page (3):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, NEGATIVE SENTENCES
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Forms of the subject.
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (4):
- LSJ, βρα^χυ?́-λογος
- LSJ, βρα^χύς
- LSJ, βρα^χυ^-λογία
- LSJ, μακρο-λογία