Plato, Menexenus, section 236c

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[236c] and I nearly got a flogging whenever I forgot.

Menexenus
Why don't you repeat it then?

Socrates
But possibly my teacher will be vexed with me if I publish abroad her speech.

Menexenus
Never fear, Socrates; only tell it and you will gratify me exceedingly, whether it is Aspasia's that you wish to deliver or anyone else's; only say on.

Socrates
But you will probably laugh me to scorn if I, at my age, seem to you to be playing like a child.

Menexenus
Not at all, Socrates; but by all means say on.

Socrates
Nay, then, I must surely gratify; you for indeed I would almost gratify you

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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