Dialogue

 1 Craty|   oisis) of the soul towards essence. Ekousion is to eikon—the
 2 Craty|      things have a permanent essence of their own?~HERMOGENES:
 3 Craty|     own proper and permanent essence: they are not in relation
 4 Craty|    and maintain to their own essence the relation prescribed
 5 Craty|    difference so long as the essence of the thing remains in
 6 Craty|     again osia. Now that the essence of things should be called
 7 Craty|     meant that estia was the essence of things. Those again who
 8 Craty|       Again, is there not an essence of each thing, just as there
 9 Craty|   sound? And is there not an essence of colour and sound as well
10 Craty| which may be said to have an essence?~HERMOGENES: I should think
11 Craty|    any one could express the essence of each thing in letters
12 Craty|     manner as to imitate the essence or not.~HERMOGENES: Very
13 Craty|      begin? Imitation of the essence is made by syllables and