Socrates completes his rhetorical account of the rhetorical aim of public eulogy. Menexenus appears to brush it off, and expresses a naive concern that the person to be chosen to deliver the eulogy won't have time to prepare. Socrates sets about explaining to him the facts of life.
Here I read through Platonic dialogues, translating and commenting on the Greek text as I go.
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