Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|        vanish away like smoke or air. Socrates in answer appeals
 2 Phaedo|        departing may vanish into air (especially if there is
 3 Phaedo|    perish and be dissipated into air while on her way to the
 4 Phaedo|       waters and the thick lower air; but the true earth is above,
 5 Phaedo|        fly to the surface of the air, in the same manner that
 6 Phaedo|          the shore of the sea of air, others in ‘islets of the
 7 Phaedo| inhalation and exhalation of the air rising and falling as the
 8 Phaedo|       body may ‘vanish into thin air,’ we have still, so far
 9 Phaedo|         of fire, or of light, or air, or water; or of a number
10 Phaedo|          dispersed like smoke or air and in her flight vanishing
11 Phaedo|      with which we think, or the air, or the fire? or perhaps
12 Phaedo|           but having recourse to air, and ether, and water, and
13 Phaedo|          attribute to sound, and air, and hearing, and he would
14 Phaedo|        heaven; another gives the air as a support to the earth,
15 Phaedo|         therefore has no need of air or any similar force to
16 Phaedo|       and the mist and the lower air collect. But the true earth
17 Phaedo|          on the surface; and the air we call the heaven, in which
18 Phaedo|      reaching the surface of the air: for if any man could arrive
19 Phaedo|        was speaking) filled with air and water have a colour
20 Phaedo|        others dwelling about the air as we dwell about the sea;
21 Phaedo|      others in islands which the air flows round, near the continent:
22 Phaedo|    continent: and in a word, the air is used by them as the water
23 Phaedo|        ether is to them what the air is to us. Moreover, the
24 Phaedo|         the same proportion that air is purer than water or the
25 Phaedo|          water or the ether than air. Also they have temples
26 Phaedo|         the surrounding wind and air do the same; they follow
27 Phaedo|       the act of respiration the air is always in process of