Dialogue

 1 Intro|         became the children of the gods, excelling all men in virtue,
 2 Intro|          enterprise, call upon the Gods; and he who is about to
 3 Intro|            had made of the Eternal Gods moving and living, he rejoiced;
 4 Intro|           are four of them: one of gods, another of birds, a third
 5 Intro|           a fourth of animals. The gods were made in the form of
 6 Intro|           day, first and eldest of gods that are in the interior
 7 Intro|         The knowledge of the other gods is beyond us, and we can
 8 Intro|           were the children of the gods, as they said; for surely
 9 Intro|     Creator addressed them thus:— ‘Gods, sons of gods, my works,
10 Intro|         them thus:— ‘Gods, sons of gods, my works, if I will, are
11 Intro|           by me they would be like gods. Do ye therefore make them;
12 Intro|         and he ordered the younger gods to frame human bodies for
13 Intro|        courses were encased by the gods in a sphere which is called
14 Intro|             In the next place, the gods gave a forward motion to
15 Intro|        every man, the other by the gods and by very few men. And
16 Intro|          be framed out of man.~The gods also mingled natures akin
17 Intro|         when they degenerated, the gods implanted in men the desire
18 Intro| generalization are dimly seen. The Gods themselves, especially the
19 Intro|             especially the greater Gods, such as Zeus, Poseidon,
20 Intro|            one God, greatest among Gods and men, who was all sight,
21 Intro|           day, first and eldest of gods that are in the interior
22 Intro|            of Zeus while the other gods go in procession, is called
23 Intro|            first and eldest of the gods, and is probably the symbol
24 Intro|          which is the image of the gods, who are the stars, and
25 Intro|         must surely have known the gods who were their ancestors,
26 Intro|        knowledge is granted to the gods only. To have seen the affinity
27 Intro|          on those who say that the Gods have no care of human things.~
28 Intro|            be the offspring of the Gods—that is what they say—and
29 Intro|        word of the children of the Gods? Although they give no probable
30 Timae|             on the other hand, the gods purge the earth with a deluge
31 Timae|      children and disciples of the gods.~Many great and wonderful
32 Timae|        after duly calling upon the Gods.~TIMAEUS: All men, Socrates,
33 Timae|             must invoke the aid of Gods and Goddesses and pray that
34 Timae|           be our invocation of the Gods, to which I add an exhortation
35 Timae|            many opinions about the gods and the generation of the
36 Timae|       created image of the eternal gods, he rejoiced, and in his
37 Timae|           the heavenly race of the gods; another, the race of birds
38 Timae|           day, first and eldest of gods that are in the interior
39 Timae|            the created and visible gods have an end.~To know or
40 Timae|            be the offspring of the gods—that is what they say—and
41 Timae|        word of the children of the gods? Although they give no probable
42 Timae|             the genealogy of these gods is to be received and set
43 Timae| revolutions as well as those other gods who are of a more retiring
44 Timae|    addressed them in these words: ‘Gods, children of gods, who are
45 Timae|          words: ‘Gods, children of gods, who are my works, and of
46 Timae|            on an equality with the gods. In order then that they
47 Timae|           committed to the younger gods the fashioning of their
48 Timae|          by what providence of the gods; and holding fast to probability,
49 Timae|          our way.~First, then, the gods, imitating the spherical
50 Timae|         that is in us: to this the gods, when they put together
51 Timae|     attached to every man; and the gods, deeming the front part
52 Timae|        when the eyelids, which the gods invented for the preservation
53 Timae|            or will be given by the gods to mortal man. This is the
54 Timae|        they have been given by the gods to the same end and for
55 Timae|            is the attribute of the gods and of very few men. Wherefore
56 Timae|            a substance dear to the gods. The compounds of earth
57 Timae|            in all of them. But the gods, foreknowing that the palpitation
58 Timae|          provide against this, the gods made what is called the
59 Timae|     dissolution and depletion, the gods contrived the following
60 Timae|        that perfect life which the gods have set before mankind,
61 Timae|        reason why at that time the gods created in us the desire