I. Introduction (Exordium)
Flex. Wherefore did your father send you here to me?
Grym. He said that you were a man unusually well instructed, wisely educated, and for that reason well-pleasing to the state. He desired that I, walking in your steps, might reach a like popularity.
Flex. How do you think that you will secure this?
Grym. Through the noble education which all say that you have yourself. My father added that this education would become me better than any other person.
II. The Controversy
Flex. Tell me, my boy, how you came to be instructed on this matter by your father?
Grym. It was not so much my father who instructed me by his precepts as my uncle, an old man, versed in many things, and long in the counsels of kings.
Flex. What then did they teach you, my son and friend?