Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|          however, she drops her wings and falls to the earth,
 2 Phaedr|         philosophy receives her wings at the close of the third
 3 Phaedr|     thousand years before their wings are restored to them. Each
 4 Phaedr|      represent the force of his wings—such at any rate is his
 5 Phaedr|        comes they receive their wings and fly away, and the lovers
 6 Phaedr|        the lovers have the same wings.~Socrates concludes:—~These
 7 Phaedr|       how in a figure they grew wings like doves, and were ‘ready
 8 Phaedr|      imperfect soul, losing her wings and drooping in her flight
 9 Phaedr|   reason why the soul loses her wings!~The wing is the corporeal
10 Phaedr|         are lamed or have their wings broken through the ill-driving
11 Phaedr| forgetfulness and vice, and her wings fall from her and she drops
12 Phaedr|         for she cannot grow her wings in less; only the soul of
13 Phaedr|         philosophy, may acquire wings in the third of the recurring
14 Phaedr|     ordinary good man who gains wings in three thousand years:—
15 Phaedr|        times in succession have wings given them, and go away
16 Phaedr|       the philosopher alone has wings; and this is just, for he
17 Phaedr|       soul is beginning to grow wings, the beauty of the beloved
18 Phaedr|          Because the growing of wings (Or, reading pterothoiton, ‘
19 Phaedr|  pterothoiton, ‘the movement of wings.’) is a necessity to him.’~
20 Phaedr|  quickening the passages of the wings, watering them and inclining
21 Phaedr|        which they receive their wings they have the same plumage