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but I was listening only yesterday to Aspasia going through a funeral speech for these very people. For she had heard the report you mention, that the Athenians are going to select the speaker; and thereupon she rehearsed to me the speech in the form it should take, extemporizing in part, while other parts of it she had previously prepared, as I imagine, at the time when she was composing the funeral oration which Pericles delivered; and from this she patched together sundry fragments.Menexenus
Could you repeat from memory that speech of Aspasia?Socrates
Yes, if I am not mistaken; for I learnt it, to be sure, from her as she went along,
Could you repeat from memory that speech of Aspasia?Socrates
Yes, if I am not mistaken; for I learnt it, to be sure, from her as she went along,