Plato, Gorgias, section 456a

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[456a]

Gorgias
So whenever there is an election of such persons as you were referring to, Socrates, you see it is the orators who give the advice and get resolutions carried in these matters.

Socrates
That is just what surprises me, Gorgias, and has made me ask you all this time what in the world the power of rhetoric can be. For, viewed in this light, its greatness comes over me as something supernatural.

Gorgias
Ah yes, if you knew all, Socrates,—how it comprises in itself practically all powers at once!

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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Commentary references to this page (3):
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 450b
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 489c
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 491a
Cross-references to this page (2):
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Tenses
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (5):
- LSJ, ἔπος
- LSJ, εἰδωλ-ικός
- LSJ, καί
- LSJ, καταφαίνω
- LSJ, συλλαμβάνω