Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|       notions of comparison and number. At first he had imagined
 2 Phaedo|     cold, with heat. Again, the number three excludes the number
 3 Phaedo|       number three excludes the number four, because three is an
 4 Phaedo|         because three is an odd number and four is an even number,
 5 Phaedo|      number and four is an even number, and the odd is opposed
 6 Phaedo| excludes the even, but that the number three, which participates
 7 Phaedo|     were imperishable, then the number three would not perish but
 8 Phaedo|       or air, or water; or of a number or of a harmony of number;
 9 Phaedo|       number or of a harmony of number; or to be or have, like
10 Phaedo|      true philosophers.’ In the number of whom, during my whole
11 Phaedo|       say by, and by reason of, number; or you would say that two
12 Phaedo|  clearer by an example:—The odd number is always called by the
13 Phaedo|     whether numbers such as the number three are not of the class
14 Phaedo|          and of every alternate number—each of them without being
15 Phaedo|    alternate numbers, has every number even, without being evenness.
16 Phaedo|       For example; Will not the number three endure annihilation
17 Phaedo|       be converted into an even number, while remaining three?~
18 Phaedo|    Cebes.~And yet, he said, the number two is certainly not opposed
19 Phaedo|    certainly not opposed to the number three?~It is not.~Then not
20 Phaedo|      which are possessed by the number three must not only be three
21 Phaedo|       must not only be three in number, but must also be odd.~Quite
22 Phaedo|      this oddness, of which the number three has the impress, the
23 Phaedo|       Then the idea of the even number will never arrive at three?~
24 Phaedo|         None.~Then the triad or number three is uneven?~Very true.~
25 Phaedo|         harm in repetition. The number five will not admit the
26 Phaedo|      more than three or the odd number will admit of the even,
27 Phaedo|       the odd principle and the number three took their departure;
28 Phaedo|        up, and they are more in number and fairer than the eye