Dialogue

  1 Intro|       great agencies of fire and water. The former is symbolized
  2 Intro|          when the danger is from water. Now the Nile is our saviour
  3 Intro|      Egypt, we are not harmed by water; whereas in other countries,
  4 Intro|        other elements of air and water, and arranged them in a
  5 Intro|        proportion—~fire:air::air:water, and air:water::water:earth,~
  6 Intro|          air::air:water, and air:water::water:earth,~and so put
  7 Intro|        air:water, and air:water::water:earth,~and so put together
  8 Intro|    elements of fire, air, earth, water, which had engrossed her,
  9 Intro|    portions of earth, air, fire, water, hereafter to be returned,
 10 Intro|         there existed fire, air, water, earth, which we suppose
 11 Intro|        are compelled to speak of water or fire, not as substances,
 12 Intro|       earth nor fire nor air nor water, but an invisible and formless
 13 Intro|        nature which is inflamed, water that which is moistened,
 14 Intro|         generation, moistened by water and inflamed by fire, and
 15 Intro|  familiar. Fire, air, earth, and water are bodies and therefore
 16 Intro|       air the octahedron, and to water the icosahedron,—according
 17 Intro|     through the medium of air or water, is decomposed but not transformed.
 18 Intro|  decomposed but not transformed. Water, when divided by fire or
 19 Intro|         air condense into one of water. Any element which is fastened
 20 Intro|        and other nameless forms. Water, again, is of two kinds,
 21 Intro|        the truths of generation.~Water which is mingled with fire
 22 Intro|        which is filtered through water passes into stone; the water
 23 Intro|     water passes into stone; the water is broken up by the earth
 24 Intro|         union with the remaining water, becomes rock. Rock, when
 25 Intro|         formed by separating the water,—soda and salt. The strong
 26 Intro|    strong compounds of earth and water are not soluble by water,
 27 Intro|         water are not soluble by water, but only by fire. Earth
 28 Intro|    consolidated, is dissolved by water; when consolidated, by fire
 29 Intro|       fire only. The cohesion of water, when strong, is dissolved
 30 Intro|           Compounds of earth and water are unaffected by water
 31 Intro|          water are unaffected by water while the water occupies
 32 Intro|    unaffected by water while the water occupies the interstices
 33 Intro|      into the interstices of the water. They are of two kinds,
 34 Intro|    others, like wax, having more water in them.~Having considered
 35 Intro|          of pure and transparent water, which are called bubbles;
 36 Intro|   another, for the simple air or water is without smell. They are
 37 Intro|   vapours or mists, thinner than water and thicker than air: and
 38 Intro|         them a union of fire and water which we call tears. The
 39 Intro|        alternately into fire and water, and thus rendered insoluble
 40 Intro|      mingled earth with fire and water and mixed with them a ferment
 41 Intro|      visible when collected. The water of tears and perspiration
 42 Intro|         fever is quotidian; when water, the fever intermits a day;
 43 Intro|       and caused them to respire water instead of the pure element
 44 Intro|          the effects of fire and water on the earth’s surface.
 45 Intro|           the nutritive power of water, the air which is the breath
 46 Intro| receiving an addition of air and water; because solid bodies, like
 47 Intro|        but two elements, air and water, which are compared to the
 48 Intro|     number—fire, air, earth, and water. They were at first mixed
 49 Intro|          of regular octahedrons, water of regular icosahedrons.
 50 Intro|          to Plato, a particle of water when decomposed is supposed
 51 Intro|        is true of fire, air, and water, which, being composed of
 52 Intro|        only become a denser, and water, the densest, only a rarer:
 53 Intro|         effect of fire upon air, water, and earth, and the effect
 54 Intro|         earth, and the effect of water upon earth. The particles
 55 Intro|        fire to fire, air to air, water to water, earth to earth.
 56 Intro|       fire, air to air, water to water, earth to earth. Plato’s
 57 Intro|         He does not observe that water has an equal tendency towards
 58 Intro|      equal tendency towards both water and earth. So easily did
 59 Intro|          of them, fire, air, and water, admit of transformation
 60 Intro|         air, though thinner than water, because when there is an
 61 Intro|       that since snow is made of water and water is black, snow
 62 Intro|        snow is made of water and water is black, snow ought to
 63 Intro|          He observed that earth, water, and air had settled down
 64 Intro|          pierce through air—when water and earth fell downward,
 65 Timae|         the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by
 66 Timae|       the earth with a deluge of water, the survivors in your country
 67 Timae|         any other time, does the water come down from above on
 68 Timae|      mean but by two, God placed water and air in the mean between
 69 Timae|      fire is to air so is air to water, and as air is to water
 70 Timae|          water, and as air is to water so is water to earth); and
 71 Timae|         as air is to water so is water to earth); and thus he bound
 72 Timae|         all the fire and all the water and all the air and all
 73 Timae|      made up of fire and air and water and earth, and returned
 74 Timae|          of fire, and earth, and water, and air from the world,
 75 Timae| invisible soul, whereas fire and water, and earth and air, are
 76 Timae|          the nature of fire, and water, and air, and earth, such
 77 Timae|         of them should be called water rather than fire, and which
 78 Timae|          what we just now called water, by condensation, I suppose,
 79 Timae|        compressed, comes flowing water, and from water comes earth
 80 Timae|          flowing water, and from water comes earth and stones once
 81 Timae|     nature’; nor let us speak of water as ‘this’; but always as ‘
 82 Timae|       earth, or air, or fire, or water, or any of their compounds
 83 Timae|         to time is inflamed, and water that which is moistened,
 84 Timae|         generation, moistened by water and inflamed by fire, and
 85 Timae|         get into order, fire and water and earth and air had only
 86 Timae|          all, fire and earth and water and air are bodies. And
 87 Timae|    adhere to probability; and to water we assign that one of the
 88 Timae|        fire, and the greatest to water, and the intermediate in
 89 Timae|         to air, and the third to water. Of all these elements,
 90 Timae|         to air, and the third to water. We must imagine all these
 91 Timae|   perhaps in some mass of air or water, is borne hither and thither,
 92 Timae|         take any other form. But water, when divided by fire or
 93 Timae|          a larger body of air or water or earth, and both are moving,
 94 Timae|       condensed into one part of water. Let us consider the matter
 95 Timae|         fire becomes air and air water. But if bodies of another
 96 Timae|     inequality of the triangles. Water, again, admits in the first
 97 Timae|         and unequal particles of water; and moves itself and is
 98 Timae|       bright and denser kinds of water, when solidified is called
 99 Timae|      which follow next in order.~Water which is mingled with fire,
100 Timae|  condensation be very great, the water above the earth becomes
101 Timae|        are the numerous kinds of water which have been mingled
102 Timae|        which is filtered through water passes into stone in the
103 Timae|        the following manner:—The water which mixes with the earth
104 Timae|          indissoluble union with water becomes rock. The fairer
105 Timae|         A like separation of the water which had been copiously
106 Timae|          then formed, soluble in water—the one, soda, which is
107 Timae|       The compounds of earth and water are not soluble by water,
108 Timae|         water are not soluble by water, but by fire only, and for
109 Timae|    undissolved; but particles of water, which are larger, force
110 Timae|         by force is dissolved by water only; when consolidated,
111 Timae|        entrance. The cohesion of water again, when very strong,
112 Timae|     bodies composed of earth and water, while the water occupies
113 Timae|       earth and water, while the water occupies the vacant interstices
114 Timae|          force, the particles of water which approach them from
115 Timae|      into the interstices of the water, do to the water what water
116 Timae|          of the water, do to the water what water does to earth
117 Timae|      water, do to the water what water does to earth and fire to
118 Timae|       compound body of earth and water liquefying and becoming
119 Timae|        sort of stones, have less water than they have earth; on
120 Timae|         and incense have more of water entering into their composition.~
121 Timae|       air) are hollow spheres of water; and those of them which
122 Timae|        narrow to admit earth and water, and too wide to detain
123 Timae|         intermediate state, when water is changing into air and
124 Timae|   changing into air and air into water; and all of them are either
125 Timae|          passing out of air into water is mist, and that which
126 Timae|       that which is passing from water into air is vapour; and
127 Timae|          smells are thinner than water and thicker than air. The
128 Timae|         them a union of fire and water which we call tears, being
129 Timae|       all—as, for example, fire, water, and the rest of the elements.
130 Timae|   perfection to produce fire and water, and air and earth—these,
131 Timae|          into fire and then into water, and once more into fire
132 Timae|         into fire and again into water—in this way by frequent
133 Timae|        mixed earth with fire and water and blended them; and making
134 Timae|     penetrates through earth and water and air and their compounds,
135 Timae|   Moreover, as to the flowing of water, the fall of the thunderbolt,
136 Timae|    compacted, earth and fire and water and air, and the unnatural
137 Timae|      fever is quotidian; when of water, which is a more sluggish
138 Timae|      were the inhabitants of the water: these were made out of