Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|      of joy in heaven. When a thousand years have elapsed the souls
 2 Phaedr|       complete a cycle of ten thousand years before their wings
 3 Phaedr|   over Greek literature for a thousand years afterwards. Yet doubtless
 4 Phaedr|      at the completion of ten thousand years all are to return
 5 Phaedr|       from nature,’ while ten thousand reviewers (mala murioi)
 6 Phaedr| spreads over much more than a thousand years. And from this decline
 7 Phaedr|     creative power? Why did a thousand years invent nothing better
 8 Phaedr|  controversy. For more than a thousand years not a single writer
 9 Phaedr|       is likely that in every thousand persons there is at least
10 Phaedr|     deteriorates his lot.~Ten thousand years must elapse before
11 Phaedr|    the recurring periods of a thousand years; he is distinguished
12 Phaedr|      who gains wings in three thousand years:—and they who choose
13 Phaedr|      away at the end of three thousand years. But the others (The
14 Phaedr|       at the end of the first thousand years the good souls and
15 Phaedr|       during a period of nine thousand years, and leave you a fool