Dialogue

 1 Phaedo| therefore either given before birth or at birth. But all men
 2 Phaedo|      given before birth or at birth. But all men have not this
 3 Phaedo|     is not innate or given at birth, unless indeed it was given
 4 Phaedo|    But if not given to men in birth, it must have been given
 5 Phaedo|   must have been given before birth—this is the only alternative
 6 Phaedo|    objection, the very act of birth may be the beginning of
 7 Phaedo|       be such a thing, is the birth of the dead into the world
 8 Phaedo|    born and at the instant of birth not only the equal or the
 9 Phaedo| acquired the knowledge before birth?~We may.~But if, after having
10 Phaedo|      which we acquired before birth was lost by us at birth,
11 Phaedo|       birth was lost by us at birth, and if afterwards by the
12 Phaedo|      we had this knowledge at birth, and continued to know through
13 Phaedo|       through life; or, after birth, those who are said to learn
14 Phaedo|       we the knowledge at our birth, or did we recollect the
15 Phaedo|     we knew previously to our birth?~I cannot decide at the
16 Phaedo|      us at the very moment of birth; for this is the only time
17 Phaedo|  existence of the soul before birth cannot be separated from
18 Phaedo|  existence of the soul before birth. But that after death the
19 Phaedo|       death as well as before birth is the other half of which
20 Phaedo|     if the soul exists before birth, and in coming to life and
21 Phaedo|       the soul existed before birth, but also that the souls