Dialogue

 1 Intro|        saying ‘Clay is moistened earth,’ he had answered, ‘There
 2 Intro|       which are under and in the earth, interrogating the whole
 3 Intro|           he thinks of the whole earth; or if he is told of the
 4 Intro|         not a mere burden of the earth.’ But he should reflect
 5 Intro|          comparison of the whole earth. (3) Important metaphysical
 6 Intro|         without us—the boundless earth or sea, the vacant heaven,
 7 Intro|   ourselves is an absurdity. The earth which is our habitation
 8 Intro| intellectualis,’ nearest, not to earth and sense, but to heaven
 9  Thea|           that clay is moistened earth—what sort of clay is not
10  Thea|     gathers in the fruits of the earth, will be most likely to
11  Thea|       and I want to know what on earth they mean; and there are
12  Thea|        as Pindar says, measuring earth and heaven and the things
13  Thea|       which are under and on the earth and above the heaven, interrogating
14  Thea| accustomed to think of the whole earth; and when they sing the
15  Thea|        we ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as
16  Thea|     persons, mere burdens of the earth, but such as men should
17  Thea|          death; and that here on earth, they will live ever in
18  Thea|         who have an admixture of earth or dung in their composition,
19  Thea|          which revolve about the earth.~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~