Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|         position and motions of the earth. None of them know how much
 2 Phaedo|           her punishment returns to earth in the course of ages. The
 3 Phaedo|             and conformation of the earth.’~Now the whole earth is
 4 Phaedo|           the earth.’~Now the whole earth is a globe placed in the
 5 Phaedo|              That which we call the earth is only one of many small
 6 Phaedo|             lower air; but the true earth is above, and is in a finer
 7 Phaedo|           we should behold the true earth and the true heaven and
 8 Phaedo|             and the true stars. Our earth is everywhere corrupted
 9 Phaedo|             world. But the heavenly earth is of divers colours, sparkling
10 Phaedo| perforations in the interior of the earth. And there is one huge chasm
11 Phaedo|         pass into the depths of the earth and return again, in their
12 Phaedo|             below the centre of the earth; for on either side the
13 Phaedo|           river which encircles the earth; Acheron takes an opposite
14 Phaedo|             after flowing under the earth through desert places, at
15 Phaedo|          dead await their return to earth. Pyriphlegethon is a stream
16 Phaedo|         fire, which coils round the earth and flows into the depths
17 Phaedo|            their abode in the upper earth, and a select few in still
18 Phaedo|      workings of powers beneath the earth. In the caricature of Aristophanes
19 Phaedo|    fugitives and vagabonds upon the earth.’ The desire of recognizing
20 Phaedo|             about the nature of the earth, which he cleverly supports
21 Phaedo|            the things of heaven and earth, and at last I concluded
22 Phaedo|           tell me first whether the earth is flat or round; and whichever
23 Phaedo|             and if he said that the earth was in the centre, he would
24 Phaedo|          all round and steadies the earth by the heaven; another gives
25 Phaedo|             air as a support to the earth, which is a sort of broad
26 Phaedo|            where three ways meet on earth. The wise and orderly soul
27 Phaedo|            own proper home.~Now the earth has divers wonderful regions,
28 Phaedo|            many descriptions of the earth, but I do not know, and
29 Phaedo|             form and regions of the earth according to my conception
30 Phaedo|             conviction is, that the earth is a round body in the centre
31 Phaedo|             Also I believe that the earth is very vast, and that we
32 Phaedo|       everywhere on the face of the earth there are hollows of various
33 Phaedo|           air collect. But the true earth is pure and situated in
34 Phaedo|         ether, and of which our own earth is the sediment gathering
35 Phaedo|         above on the surface of the earth; which is just as if a creature
36 Phaedo|         dwelling in a hollow of the earth, and fancy that we are on
37 Phaedo|             true light and the true earth. For our earth, and the
38 Phaedo|             the true earth. For our earth, and the stones, and the
39 Phaedo|            the other. Of that upper earth which is under the heaven,
40 Phaedo|             In the first place, the earth, when looked at from above,
41 Phaedo|         colours used by painters on earth are in a manner samples.
42 Phaedo|        samples. But there the whole earth is made up of them, and
43 Phaedo|           the white which is in the earth is whiter than any chalk
44 Phaedo|         these and other colours the earth is made up, and they are
45 Phaedo|        foulness and disease both in earth and stones, as well as in
46 Phaedo|             the jewels of the upper earth, which also shines with
47 Phaedo|           in all places, making the earth a sight to gladden the beholder’
48 Phaedo|             the nature of the whole earth, and of the things which
49 Phaedo|         things which are around the earth; and there are divers regions
50 Phaedo|       narrow in the interior of the earth, connecting them with one
51 Phaedo|      see-saw in the interior of the earth which moves all this up
52 Phaedo|             right through the whole earth; this is that chasm which
53 Phaedo|            inmost depth beneath the earth;’~and which he in other
54 Phaedo|        hither and thither, over the earth—just as in the act of respiration
55 Phaedo|         into the lower parts of the earth, as they are called, they
56 Phaedo|       called, they flow through the earth in those regions, and fill
57 Phaedo|         Thence they again enter the earth, some of them making a long
58 Phaedo|             and some wind round the earth with one or many folds like
59 Phaedo|      Oceanus, which flows round the earth in a circle; and in the
60 Phaedo|              which passes under the earth through desert places into
61 Phaedo|       turbid, and winding about the earth, comes, among other places,
62 Phaedo|         making many coils about the earth plunges into Tartarus at
63 Phaedo|           in different parts of the earth. The fourth river goes out
64 Phaedo|            waters, passes under the earth, winding round in the opposite
65 Phaedo|              and dwell in the purer earth; and of these, such as have