Dialogue

 1 Intro|    intelligence and knowledge are said to be perfected by the circle
 2 Intro|           up at hearing this, and said: Had Solon only had the
 3 Intro|         the subject of the poem?’ said the person who made the
 4 Intro|         of the actors. ‘Tell us,’ said the other, ‘the whole story,
 5 Intro|          Thereupon an aged priest said to him: ‘O Solon, Solon,
 6 Intro|        are welcome to hear them,’ said the priest, ‘both for your
 7 Intro|     children of the gods, as they said; for surely they must have
 8 Intro|        perpetual flux, whence, he said, would arise, first, sensation;
 9 Intro|         dreamy manner, and yet is said to be necessary, for we
10 Intro|          ending to our tale. As I said at first, all things were
11 Intro|       something should be briefly said about other animals: first
12 Intro|            For they can hardly be said to have generalized at all.
13 Intro|   generalized at all. They may be said more truly to have cleared
14 Intro|           He would, perhaps, have said that ‘the first things are
15 Intro|           other; for it cannot be said or imagined not to be.’
16 Intro|   revolving in his mind.~Space is said by Plato to be the ‘containing
17 Intro|           when empty. Hence it is said to be discerned by a kind
18 Intro|           of the year, God may be said to have ‘used in the delineation
19 Intro|      Hippolyt. Ref. Haer. I.) had said, would be, as he satirically
20 Intro|        same—he might perhaps have said that to ‘the spectator of
21 Intro|         The motion of the same is said to be undivided, whereas
22 Intro|          of the world, and is not said to be in motion. In the
23 Intro|           its axis, he would have said so in distinct words, and
24 Intro|          are moving, may be truly said to act, equally with them. (
25 Intro|           is nearly as much to be said on the one side of the question
26 Intro|        reason. Though the soul is said by him to be prior to the
27 Intro|   respiration the external net is said to find a way in and out
28 Intro|           and below in space, and said that all things were the
29 Intro|          us the origin. He may be said, in the language of modern
30 Intro|         error. For we too hastily said that Plato in the Timaeus
31 Intro|           witness to the story is said to be Crantor, a Stoic philosopher
32 Intro|          navigators, may be truly said to have contributed indirectly
33 Timae|            Socrates; and what you said of it was very much to our
34 Timae|           to be our warriors, and said that they were to be guardians
35 Timae|    TIMAEUS: Exactly.~SOCRATES: We said, if I am not mistaken, that
36 Timae|            TIMAEUS: That was also said.~SOCRATES: Neither did we
37 Timae|          could the best breed, we said that the chief magistrates,
38 Timae|           And you remember how we said that the children of the
39 Timae|           it was just as you have said.~SOCRATES: I should like,
40 Timae|         us. There were of old, he said, great and marvellous actions
41 Timae|         of telling it, was, as he said, nearly ninety years of
42 Timae|          so or to please Critias, said that in his judgment Solon
43 Timae| brightened up at hearing this and said, smiling: Yes, Amynander,
44 Timae|          the tale about, Critias? said Amynander.~About the greatest
45 Timae|         come down to us.~Tell us, said the other, the whole story,
46 Timae|          was of a very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes
47 Timae|        governed of all cities, is said to have performed the noblest
48 Timae|           hear about them, Solon, said the priest, both for your
49 Timae|         of it. Truly, as is often said, the lessons of our childhood
50 Timae|    eternal; but if what cannot be said without blasphemy is true,
51 Timae|      likeness would be more truly said to resemble not them, but
52 Timae|        hence they can scarcely be said to know that their wanderings,
53 Timae|          and now let what we have said about the nature of the
54 Timae|       Here, and all those who are said to be their brethren, and
55 Timae|          possess, enough has been said. I will therefore now proceed
56 Timae|          task. Remembering what I said at first about probability,
57 Timae|          lastly, every man may be said to share in true opinion,
58 Timae|         what was before obscurely said: there was an error in imagining
59 Timae|       follows. Something has been said of this matter already,
60 Timae|      something more remains to be said, which is, that motion never
61 Timae|          body is called heavy and said to tend downwards, and the
62 Timae|          body is called light and said to tend upwards. And we
63 Timae|      human body; whereas what was said above relates mainly to
64 Timae|           the sight, which, as we said above, is a body naturally
65 Timae|  agitation and effervescence, are said to boil or ferment—of all
66 Timae|       beginning of our tale.~As I said at first, when all things
67 Timae|         he remembers to have been said, whether in a dream or when
68 Timae|         assert that what has been said by us is probable, and will
69 Timae|      third kind of soul, which is said to be seated between the
70 Timae|          body, as we have already said when speaking of the universe,