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should ever fail in providing us with a succession of managers.Menexenus
Certainly if you, Socrates, allow and counsel me to govern, I shall do so gladly; but otherwise not. This time, however, I went to the Council Chamber because I had learnt that the Council was going to select someone to make an oration over the dead; for you know that they propose to arrange for funeral rites.Socrates
Yes, I do. And whom did they select?Menexenus
Nobody: they postponed it till tomorrow. I fancy, however, that Archinus will be selected, or Dion.
Certainly if you, Socrates, allow and counsel me to govern, I shall do so gladly; but otherwise not. This time, however, I went to the Council Chamber because I had learnt that the Council was going to select someone to make an oration over the dead; for you know that they propose to arrange for funeral rites.Socrates
Yes, I do. And whom did they select?Menexenus
Nobody: they postponed it till tomorrow. I fancy, however, that Archinus will be selected, or Dion.