Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|   Socrates has been deferred. (Compare Xen. Mem.) The time has
 2 Phaedo|      and Terpsion from Megara (compare Theaet.), Ctesippus, Antisthenes,
 3 Phaedo|      asked by Evenus the poet (compare Apol.): ‘Why Socrates, who
 4 Phaedo|     but few are the mystics.’ (Compare Matt. xxii.: ‘Many are called
 5 Phaedo|       not quite indissoluble. (Compare Tim.) Yet even the body
 6 Phaedo|        such as bees and ants. (Compare Republic, Meno.) But only
 7 Phaedo|      the company of the gods. (Compare Phaedrus.) This is the reason
 8 Phaedo|        at variance with this. (Compare a parallel difficulty in
 9 Phaedo|       are to be investigated. (Compare Republic; Charm.)~Then he
10 Phaedo|      other eccentric notions. (Compare Arist. Metaph.) It was as
11 Phaedo|     the water, or in a glass. (Compare Laws; Republic.) ‘I was
12 Phaedo|  retaining her own character? (Compare Gorgias.) Or is the opposition
13 Phaedo|     too inseparable from good (compare Lysis); not always punished
14 Phaedo|      improvement of the whole (compare Laws.)~9. But some one will
15 Phaedo|    this alternation of feeling compare the Old Testament,—Psalm
16 Phaedo|    soul of the good and wise. (Compare Republic.) Such a confusion
17 Phaedo|   other passages (Gorg., Tim., compare Crito), he wins belief for
18 Phaedo| teacher among barbarous races (compare Polit.); or the mysterious
19 Phaedo|    ordinary interests of life (compare his jeu d’esprit about his
20 Phaedo|        is rich and prosperous (compare the jest in the Euthydemus),
21 Phaedo|    swallowed up in death? (But compare Republic.)~There is no escape,
22 Phaedo|        anything of that sort. (Compare Meno.)~But if, said Socrates,
23 Phaedo|      sensations, and with this compare them, finding these ideas
24 Phaedo|      in company with the gods (compare Apol.). Is not this true,
25 Phaedo|        and therefore visible.~(Compare Milton, Comus:—~‘But when
26 Phaedo|  without philosophy and mind. (Compare Republic.)~Why are they
27 Phaedo|        eccentricities. I might compare him to a person who began
28 Phaedo|      stones, and fairer still (compare Republic). The reason is,