Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|       heat. Again, the number three excludes the number four,
 2 Phaedo|      the number four, because three is an odd number and four
 3 Phaedo|     even, but that the number three, which participates in oddness,
 4 Phaedo| imperishable, then the number three would not perish but remove,
 5 Phaedo|   conception; far less than a three years’ old child of the
 6 Phaedo|      a few minds appearing in three or four favoured nations,
 7 Phaedo|    numbers such as the number three are not of the class of
 8 Phaedo|    not say, for example, that three may be called by its proper
 9 Phaedo|    which is not the same with three? and this may be said not
10 Phaedo|       may be said not only of three but also of five, and of
11 Phaedo|  example; Will not the number three endure annihilation or anything
12 Phaedo|       number, while remaining three?~Very true, said Cebes.~
13 Phaedo|     not opposed to the number three?~It is not.~Then not only
14 Phaedo|       possessed by the number three must not only be three in
15 Phaedo| number three must not only be three in number, but must also
16 Phaedo|  oddness, of which the number three has the impress, the opposite
17 Phaedo|   number will never arrive at three?~No.~Then three has no part
18 Phaedo|     arrive at three?~No.~Then three has no part in the even?~
19 Phaedo|      Then the triad or number three is uneven?~Very true.~To
20 Phaedo|        in the instance given, three, although not opposed to
21 Phaedo|   were imperishable, must not three be imperishable?~Of course.~
22 Phaedo|   ever be dead, any more than three or the odd number will admit
23 Phaedo|      principle and the number three took their departure; and
24 Phaedo|    gods below in places where three ways meet on earth. The