Dialogue

  1 Phaedo|        name. There are Simmias and Cebes (Crito), two disciples of
  2 Phaedo|           mention of Aesop reminds Cebes of a question which had
  3 Phaedo|           is held to be unlawful.’~Cebes asks why suicide is thought
  4 Phaedo|       belong to him. But why, asks Cebes, if he is a possession of
  5 Phaedo|         him. Simmias explains that Cebes is really referring to Socrates,
  6 Phaedo|      himself against the charge of Cebes. The company shall be his
  7 Phaedo|        seeing Simmias may remember Cebes, or from seeing a picture
  8 Phaedo|            objected by Simmias and Cebes that these arguments only
  9 Phaedo|        light of truth.~Simmias and Cebes remain in doubt; but they
 10 Phaedo|         does not survive the lyre. Cebes has also an objection, which
 11 Phaedo|            his request Simmias and Cebes repeat their objections.
 12 Phaedo|      recapitulates the argument of Cebes, which, as he remarks, involves
 13 Phaedo|            world. When Simmias and Cebes say that they are more strongly
 14 Phaedo|      interlocutors are Simmias and Cebes, the disciples of Philolaus
 15 Phaedo|           than any man living; and Cebes, although finally persuaded
 16 Phaedo| incredulous of human beings. It is Cebes who at the commencement
 17 Phaedo|   pre-existence of the soul. It is Cebes who urges that the pre-existence
 18 Phaedo|            of the human faculties. Cebes is the deeper and more consecutive
 19 Phaedo|        protagonist and Simmias and Cebes the secondary performers,
 20 Phaedo|    Socrates, Apollodorus, Simmias, Cebes, Crito and an Attendant
 21 Phaedo|            Simmias the Theban, and Cebes, and Phaedondes; Euclid
 22 Phaedo|      appears to succeed.~Upon this Cebes said: I am glad, Socrates,
 23 Phaedo|        honour of Apollo.~Tell him, Cebes, he replied, what is the
 24 Phaedo|        verse. Tell this to Evenus, Cebes, and bid him be of good
 25 Phaedo|           Why do you say, enquired Cebes, that a man ought not to
 26 Phaedo|    Socrates replied: And have you, Cebes and Simmias, who are the
 27 Phaedo|           another.~Very true, said Cebes, laughing gently and speaking
 28 Phaedo|           Yes, I quite agree, said Cebes.~And if one of your own
 29 Phaedo|          could?~Certainly, replied Cebes.~Then, if we look at the
 30 Phaedo|            me.~Yes, Socrates, said Cebes, there seems to be truth
 31 Phaedo|           life.~The earnestness of Cebes seemed to please Socrates.
 32 Phaedo|          And I rather imagine that Cebes is referring to you; he
 33 Phaedo|        ready to admit, Simmias and Cebes, that I ought to be grieved
 34 Phaedo|           this may be, Simmias and Cebes, I will endeavour to explain.
 35 Phaedo|            I am right, Simmias and Cebes, in not grieving or repining
 36 Phaedo|           judges, it will be well.~Cebes answered: I agree, Socrates,
 37 Phaedo|       force or intelligence.~True, Cebes, said Socrates; and shall
 38 Phaedo|            things?~I am sure, said Cebes, that I should greatly like
 39 Phaedo|        adduced.~Very true, replied Cebes.~Then let us consider the
 40 Phaedo|         whether things or persons, Cebes, are generated from the
 41 Phaedo|        admissions were not unfair, Cebes, he said, may be shown,
 42 Phaedo|            in like manner, my dear Cebes, if all things which partook
 43 Phaedo|          no escape, Socrates, said Cebes; and to me your argument
 44 Phaedo|     absolutely true.~Yes, he said, Cebes, it is and must be so, in
 45 Phaedo|      better portion than the evil.~Cebes added: Your favorite doctrine,
 46 Phaedo|          immortality.~But tell me, Cebes, said Simmias, interposing,
 47 Phaedo|          One excellent proof, said Cebes, is afforded by questions.
 48 Phaedo|       recollection, and, from what Cebes has said, I am beginning
 49 Phaedo|          sees Simmias may remember Cebes; and there are endless examples
 50 Phaedo|         you may be led to remember Cebes?~True.~Or you may also be
 51 Phaedo|            the proof.~Well, but is Cebes equally satisfied? for I
 52 Phaedo|          think, said Simmias, that Cebes is satisfied: although he
 53 Phaedo|       feeling of the many to which Cebes was referring—the feeling
 54 Phaedo|           Very true, Simmias, said Cebes; about half of what was
 55 Phaedo|            that proof, Simmias and Cebes, has been already given,
 56 Phaedo|          not when the sky is calm.~Cebes answered with a smile: Then,
 57 Phaedo|         replied, is a large place, Cebes, and has many good men,
 58 Phaedo|        search.~The search, replied Cebes, shall certainly be made.
 59 Phaedo|            should imagine so, said Cebes.~And the uncompounded may
 60 Phaedo|            same, Socrates, replied Cebes.~And what would you say
 61 Phaedo|       another?~The latter, replied Cebes; they are always in a state
 62 Phaedo|            Socrates.~Then reflect, Cebes: of all which has been said
 63 Phaedo|      changeable. Can this, my dear Cebes, be denied?~It cannot.~But
 64 Phaedo|            be, my dear Simmias and Cebes. The truth rather is, that
 65 Phaedo|          Apol.). Is not this true, Cebes?~Yes, said Cebes, beyond
 66 Phaedo|        this true, Cebes?~Yes, said Cebes, beyond a doubt.~But the
 67 Phaedo|          Yes, that is very likely, Cebes; and these must be the souls,
 68 Phaedo|      suppose them to go?~Yes, said Cebes; with such natures, beyond
 69 Phaedo|            the reason, Simmias and Cebes, why the true votaries of
 70 Phaedo|        would not become them, said Cebes.~No indeed, he replied;
 71 Phaedo|         What is it, Socrates? said Cebes.~The evil is that when the
 72 Phaedo|           true, Socrates, answered Cebes.~And this, Cebes, is the
 73 Phaedo|          answered Cebes.~And this, Cebes, is the reason why the true
 74 Phaedo|            Never fear, Simmias and Cebes, that a soul which has been
 75 Phaedo|           what had been said; only Cebes and Simmias spoke a few
 76 Phaedo|        tell you my difficulty, and Cebes will tell you his. I feel
 77 Phaedo|       matter, either alone or with Cebes, the argument does certainly
 78 Phaedo|          had better also hear what Cebes has to say that we may gain
 79 Phaedo|            Please to tell me then, Cebes, he said, what was the difficulty
 80 Phaedo|     difficulty which troubled you?~Cebes said: I will tell you. My
 81 Phaedo|         ground against Simmias and Cebes, I would myself take an
 82 Phaedo|         state of mind, Simmias and Cebes, in which I approach the
 83 Phaedo|          first. On the other hand, Cebes appeared to grant that the
 84 Phaedo|         Are not these, Simmias and Cebes, the points which we have
 85 Phaedo|          was enclosed in the body?~Cebes said that he had been wonderfully
 86 Phaedo|          us; but what shall I say, Cebes, to her husband Cadmus,
 87 Phaedo|          of propitiating him, said Cebes; I am sure that you have
 88 Phaedo|         suspect to be your notion, Cebes; and I designedly recur
 89 Phaedo|       subtract anything.~But, said Cebes, as far as I see at present,
 90 Phaedo|     raising a tremendous question, Cebes, involving the whole nature
 91 Phaedo|        should very much like, said Cebes, to hear what you have to
 92 Phaedo|        Socrates. When I was young, Cebes, I had a prodigious desire
 93 Phaedo|       reasonable notion?~Yes, said Cebes, I think so.~Well; but let
 94 Phaedo|       notion of such matters? said Cebes.~I should be far enough
 95 Phaedo|  understand me.~No indeed, replied Cebes, not very well.~There is
 96 Phaedo|           immortality of the soul.~Cebes said: You may proceed at
 97 Phaedo|             Indeed, I should, said Cebes, laughing.~In like manner
 98 Phaedo|        most true, said Simmias and Cebes, both speaking at once.~
 99 Phaedo|          the change.~That, replied Cebes, is quite my notion.~Hereupon
100 Phaedo|          the same time, turning to Cebes, he said: Are you at all
101 Phaedo|           you at all disconcerted, Cebes, at our friend’s objection?~
102 Phaedo|             I do not feel so, said Cebes; and yet I cannot deny that
103 Phaedo|   remaining three?~Very true, said Cebes.~And yet, he said, the number
104 Phaedo|           all means.~Are they not, Cebes, such as compel the things
105 Phaedo|        brings.~Impossible, replied Cebes.~And now, he said, what
106 Phaedo|        safe and sound?~True.~Then, Cebes, beyond question, the soul
107 Phaedo|          convinced, Socrates, said Cebes, and have nothing more to
108 Phaedo|            comes. You, Simmias and Cebes, and all other men, will