_Pol._ What matters that, if I answer well enough for you?
_Chær._ Not at all: since you wish it then, answer.
_Pol._ Ask.
_Chær._ I ask then, If Gorgias happened to be skilled in the same art as
his brother Herodicus is skilled, what name should we rightly give him?
Would it not be the same as his brother?
_Pol._ Certainly.
_Chær._ In calling him a physician, then, we should speak correctly?
_Pol._ Yes.
_Chær._ But if he were skilled in the same art as Aristophon, son of
Aglaophon, or his brother, what should we properly call him?
_Pol._ Evidently, a painter.
_Chær._ But now, since he is skilled in a certain art, what can we
properly call him?
5. _Pol._ Chærephon, there are many arts among men by experience
experimentally discovered: for experience causes our life to proceed
according to art, but inexperience according to chance. Of each of these
different persons partake of different arts, in different manners; but
the best of the best; in the number of whom is Gorgias here, who
possesses the finest of the arts.
_Socr._ Polus appears, Gorgias, to be very well prepared for speaking:
but he does not do what he promised Chærephon.
_Gorg._ How so, Socrates?
_Socr._ He does not appear to me to answer the question that was asked.