Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|            heaven. When a thousand years have elapsed the souls meet
 2 Phaedr|            a cycle of ten thousand years before their wings are restored
 3 Phaedr|          literature for a thousand years afterwards. Yet doubtless
 4 Phaedr|         completion of ten thousand years all are to return to the
 5 Phaedr|          the year 436, about seven years before the birth of Plato.
 6 Phaedr|      thirty and Plato twenty-three years of age, and while Socrates
 7 Phaedr|          of twenty or twenty-three years of age. The cosmological
 8 Phaedr|            written at least twenty years after the other. The conclusion
 9 Phaedr|             or at most two hundred years if we exclude Homer, the
10 Phaedr|          much more than a thousand years. And from this decline the
11 Phaedr|          power? Why did a thousand years invent nothing better than
12 Phaedr|           For more than a thousand years not a single writer of first-rate,
13 Phaedr|           suppose that equality of years inclines them to the same
14 Phaedr| deteriorates his lot.~Ten thousand years must elapse before the soul
15 Phaedr|    recurring periods of a thousand years; he is distinguished from
16 Phaedr|            wings in three thousand years:—and they who choose this
17 Phaedr|          the end of three thousand years. But the others (The philosopher
18 Phaedr|          end of the first thousand years the good souls and also
19 Phaedr|         would be disgraced, now as years advance, at the appointed
20 Phaedr|            period of nine thousand years, and leave you a fool in