Plato, Meno, section 76b

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[76b] to recollect and tell me what account Gorgias gives of virtue!

Meno
When you have answered my question, Socrates, I will answer yours.

Socrates
One might tell even blindfolded, Meno, by the way you discuss, that you are handsome and still have lovers.

Meno
Why so?

Socrates
Because you invariably speak in a peremptory tone, after the fashion of spoilt beauties, holding as they do a despotic power so long as their bloom is on them. You have also, I daresay,

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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