Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|      from them. For example, cold and heat are opposed; and
 2 Phaedo|   heat, cannot co-exist with cold, or snow, which is inseparable
 3 Phaedo|    which is inseparable from cold, with heat. Again, the number
 4 Phaedo|      that no bird sings when cold, or hungry, or in pain,
 5 Phaedo|      the elements of hot and cold, wet and dry, then the soul
 6 Phaedo|      decay which the hot and cold principle contracts, as
 7 Phaedo| another thing which you term cold?~Certainly.~But are they
 8 Phaedo|     different from fire, and cold is not the same with snow?~
 9 Phaedo|    too at the advance of the cold will either retire or perish;
10 Phaedo|   under the influence of the cold, they will not remain as
11 Phaedo|   remain as before, fire and cold.~That is true, he said.~
12 Phaedo| receive the odd, or fire the cold—from these examples (and
13 Phaedo| course.~And if that which is cold were imperishable, when
14 Phaedo|    the fire when assailed by cold would not have perished
15 Phaedo|     heat in the fire, of the cold. Yet a person may say: ‘
16 Phaedo|  rivers, and springs hot and cold, and a great fire, and great
17 Phaedo|    and showed us that he was cold and stiff. And he felt them
18 Phaedo|     He was beginning to grow cold about the groin, when he