Dialogue

 1 Intro|          quality and dissolves the flesh. Of the kinds of earth,
 2 Intro|           explaining the nature of flesh and of the mortal soul;
 3 Intro|          That is hard to which the flesh yields, and soft which yields
 4 Intro|           soft which yields to the flesh, and these two terms are
 5 Intro|          The creation of bones and flesh was on this wise. The foundation
 6 Intro|            he contrived sinews and flesh—the first to give flexibility,
 7 Intro|          salt, so as to form pulpy flesh. But the sinews he made
 8 Intro|            of bone and unfermented flesh, giving them a mean nature
 9 Intro|           were more glutinous than flesh, but softer than bone. The
10 Intro|          with the thinnest film of flesh, those which have least
11 Intro|           joints he diminished the flesh in order not to impede the
12 Intro|           inner bones, he laid the flesh thicker. For where the flesh
13 Intro|       flesh thicker. For where the flesh is thicker there is less
14 Intro|         Creator has made solely of flesh, as for example, the tongue.
15 Intro|            of solid bone and thick flesh been consistent with acute
16 Intro|      senseless by an overgrowth of flesh. Wherefore it was covered
17 Intro|           bone, where the skin and flesh meet, one on the right and
18 Intro|       frame according to which the flesh and sinews are made of blood,
19 Intro|         out of the fibres, and the flesh out of the congealed substance
20 Intro|            from the sinews and the flesh, not only binds the flesh
21 Intro|          flesh, not only binds the flesh to the bones, but nourishes
22 Intro|            in health.~But when the flesh wastes and returns into
23 Intro|             The oldest part of the flesh which is hard to decompose
24 Intro|            auburn colour, when new flesh is decomposed by the internal
25 Intro|  decomposition of young and tender flesh, and covered with little
26 Intro|         substance which unites the flesh and bones is diseased, and
27 Intro|         and full of brine, and the flesh gets back again into the
28 Intro|         through the density of the flesh does not receive sufficient
29 Intro|        food, and the food into the flesh, and the flesh returns again
30 Intro|            into the flesh, and the flesh returns again into the blood.
31 Intro|          stale blood, or liquefied flesh, comes in little by little,
32 Intro|         are prior to the bones and flesh. The brain, the containing
33 Intro|          to be composed—the blood, flesh, sinews—like the elements
34 Intro|            of them, namely, blood, flesh, sinews, are generated in
35 Intro|            and air to permeate the flesh.~Plato’s account of digestion
36 Intro|            obvious distinctions of flesh, bones, and the limbs of
37 Intro|         which are least covered by flesh, as is the case with the
38 Intro|     covered with a thicker pulp of flesh, might have been a longer-lived
39 Timae|        quality which dissolves the flesh; it is called opos (a vegetable
40 Timae|           considered the origin of flesh, or what belongs to flesh,
41 Timae|          flesh, or what belongs to flesh, or of that part of the
42 Timae|           called hard to which our flesh yields, and soft which yields
43 Timae|           soft which yields to our flesh; and things are also termed
44 Timae|        moist, delicate portions of flesh—when, as they are dissolved,
45 Timae|           consume some part of the flesh itself, like potash and
46 Timae|         hot and cold bodies on the flesh, or of astringent bodies
47 Timae|           within us.~The bones and flesh, and other similar parts
48 Timae|       contrived the sinews and the flesh, that so binding all the
49 Timae|           and extension, while the flesh would serve as a protection
50 Timae|          formed soft and succulent flesh. As for the sinews, he made
51 Timae|            of bone and unfermented flesh, attempered so as to be
52 Timae|         more glutinous nature than flesh, but a softer and moister
53 Timae|            in an upper covering of flesh. The more living and sensitive
54 Timae|            in the thinnest film of flesh, and those which had the
55 Timae|            thickest and most solid flesh. So again on the joints
56 Timae|            only a thin covering of flesh, that it might not interfere
57 Timae|           abundantly provided with flesh; but such as have mind in
58 Timae|           made some part solely of flesh in order to give sensation,—
59 Timae| combination of solid bone and much flesh with acute perceptions.
60 Timae|            thin bone, but not with flesh and sinews, since it had
61 Timae|         reason of an overgrowth of flesh. The fleshy nature was not
62 Timae|    reflecting also that instead of flesh the brain needed the hair
63 Timae|        back where the skin and the flesh join, which answered severally
64 Timae|           through the pores of the flesh and is driven round in a
65 Timae|         blood, which nourishes the flesh and the whole body, whence
66 Timae|        whereas marrow and bone and flesh and sinews are composed
67 Timae|          natural order is that the flesh and sinews should be made
68 Timae|       which they are akin, and the flesh out of the clots which are
69 Timae|            from the sinews and the flesh, not only glues the flesh
70 Timae|          flesh, not only glues the flesh to the bones, but nourishes
71 Timae|       order, disease. For when the flesh becomes decomposed and sends
72 Timae|             The oldest part of the flesh which is corrupted, being
73 Timae|         the bitter matter when new flesh is decomposed by the fire
74 Timae|     liquefaction of new and tender flesh when air is present, if
75 Timae|            decomposition of tender flesh when intermingled with air
76 Timae|           the several parts of the flesh are separated by disease,
77 Timae|          when that which binds the flesh to the bones is diseased,
78 Timae|           to the bone and to unite flesh and bone, and from being
79 Timae|            crumbles away under the flesh and the sinews, and separates
80 Timae|         and full of brine, and the flesh again gets into the circulation
81 Timae|       reason of the density of the flesh, does not obtain sufficient
82 Timae|        food, and the food into the flesh, and the flesh again falling
83 Timae|            into the flesh, and the flesh again falling into the blood
84 Timae|            And oftentimes when the flesh is dissolved in the body,
85 Timae|        blood, and which from being flesh is dissolved again into