Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|        appeals first of all to the old Orphic tradition that the
 2 Phaedo|             just as the coat of an old weaver is left behind him
 3 Phaedo|           had better return to the old and safe method of ideas.
 4 Phaedo|          was inconsistent with the old assertion that opposites
 5 Phaedo|          answer can be made to the old commonplace, ‘Is not God
 6 Phaedo|           less than a three years’ old child of the whole of life.
 7 Phaedo|           men. The wicked man when old, is not, as Plato supposes (
 8 Phaedo|       between the civilized man in old and new countries, may be
 9 Phaedo|     overpowers the desire of life; old age, like the child, is
10 Phaedo| alternation of feeling compare the Old Testament,—Psalm vi.; Isaiah;
11 Phaedo|            the popular belief. The old Homeric notion of a gibbering
12 Phaedo|           personal history. To his old enemies the Comic poets,
13 Phaedo|   Menexenus, Ctesippus, Lysis, are old friends; Evenus has been
14 Phaedo|            and as has been said of old, some far better thing for
15 Phaedo|          even if he were one of my old enemies, the Comic poets,
16 Phaedo|          will adduce is that of an old weaver, who dies, and after
17 Phaedo|            it: let me have not the old safe answer of which I spoke