Plato, Meno 76c

ὦσιν, καὶ ἅμα ἐμοῦ ἴσως κατέγνωκας ὅτι εἰμὶ ἥττων τῶν καλῶν· χαριοῦμαι οὖν σοι καὶ ἀποκρινοῦμαι. πάνυ μὲν οὖν χάρισαι. βούλει οὖν σοι κατὰ Γοργίαν ἀποκρίνωμαι, ᾗ ἂν σὺ μάλιστα ἀκολουθήσαις; βούλομαι· πῶς γὰρ οὔ; οὐκοῦν λέγετε ἀπορροάς τινας τῶν ὄντων κατὰ Ἐμπεδοκλέα; σφόδρα γε. καὶ πόρους εἰς οὓς καὶ διʼ ὧν αἱ ἀπορροαὶ πορεύονται; πάνυ γε. καὶ τῶν ἀπορροῶν τὰς μὲν ἁρμόττειν ἐνίοις τῶν

made a note of my weakness for handsome people. So I will indulge you, and answer. You must certainly indulge me. Then would you like me to answer you in the manner of Gorgias, which you would find easiest to follow? I should like that, of course. Do not both of you say there are certain effluences of existent things, as Empedocles held? Certainly. And passages into which and through which the effluences pass? To be sure. And some of the effluences fit into various passages,