Dialogue

 1 Parme|       that things become like by partaking of likeness, great by partaking
 2 Parme|  partaking of likeness, great by partaking of greatness, just and beautiful
 3 Parme| greatness, just and beautiful by partaking of justice and beauty, and
 4 Parme| contradiction in material things partaking of the ideas of one and
 5 Parme| connection. Things are little by partaking of littleness, great by
 6 Parme|          of littleness, great by partaking of greatness, and the like.
 7 Parme|         answer to this is, that ‘partaking’ is a figure of speech,
 8 Parme|       than one another. And one, partaking of time and also partaking
 9 Parme|       partaking of time and also partaking of becoming older and younger,
10 Parme|          show that all is one by partaking of one, and at the same
11 Parme|         at the same time many by partaking of many, would that be very
12 Parme|       But are there any modes of partaking of being other than these?~
13 Parme|         than one another, if not partaking of the other.~How can they
14 Parme|        partake of being when not partaking of being, or not partake
15 Parme|        not partake of being when partaking of being?~Impossible.~Then
16 Parme|         Is it not a fact that in partaking of the one they are not
17 Parme|          very time when they are partaking of it?~Clearly.~They do
18 Parme|          but now the others, not partaking in any way of the one, are