Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|          cause of the beautiful, greatness the cause of the great,
 2 Phaedo|      Simmias may be said to have greatness and also smallness, because
 3 Phaedo|        which is in me drives out greatness.~One of the company here
 4 Phaedo|     these alone, but of absolute greatness, and health, and strength,
 5 Phaedo|          beauty and goodness and greatness, and the like; grant me
 6 Phaedo|       with me?~I do.~And that by greatness only great things become
 7 Phaedo|    greater by, and by reason of, greatness, and the less is less only
 8 Phaedo|        predicate of Simmias both greatness and smallness?~Yes, I do.~
 9 Phaedo| smallness when compared with the greatness of Simmias?~True.~And if
10 Phaedo|           but because Phaedo has greatness relatively to Simmias, who
11 Phaedo|      smallness of the one by his greatness, and allowing the greatness
12 Phaedo|      greatness, and allowing the greatness of the other to exceed his
13 Phaedo|           not only that absolute greatness will never be great and
14 Phaedo|         and also small, but that greatness in us or in the concrete
15 Phaedo|       person. And as the idea of greatness cannot condescend ever to
16 Phaedo|        mind, when I think of the greatness of the subject and the feebleness
17 Phaedo|       incurable by reason of the greatness of their crimes—who have
18 Phaedo|       discourse, and also of the greatness of our sorrow; he was like