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but in private companies as well? And is it not the same when concerned with small things as with great, and, properly speaking, no more to be esteemed in important than in trifling matters? Is this what you have heard?Phaedrus
No, by Zeus, not that exactly; but the art of speaking and writing is exercised chiefly in lawsuits, and that of speaking also in public assemblies; and I never heard of any further uses.Socrates
Then you have heard only of the treatises on rhetoric by Nestor and Odysseus, which they wrote
No, by Zeus, not that exactly; but the art of speaking and writing is exercised chiefly in lawsuits, and that of speaking also in public assemblies; and I never heard of any further uses.Socrates
Then you have heard only of the treatises on rhetoric by Nestor and Odysseus, which they wrote