227a-230e Introduction

230e-234c Speech of Lysias

234c-237b1 Interlude

237b-241d Socrates' speech

241d-243e Second interlude

243e-257b Socrates' second speech (recantation)

257b-278b Discussion of persuasive speech

257b-258e Introduction

259e-259d Myth of cicadas

259e-266c Conditions of persuasive speech

266d-274b Means of rhetorical teaching

274b-278b Writing