Dialogue

 1 Intro|   speculations of others. In all three dialogues he is exerting
 2 Intro|       made a compound of all the three, he proceeded to divide
 3 Intro|       ratios of twos and threes, three of either sort, and he bade
 4 Intro|        directions to one another—three of them, the Sun, Mercury,
 5 Intro|         unequal swiftness to the three and to one another, but
 6 Intro|           and the essence, these three, and also divided and bound
 7 Intro|         together. Hear me, then:—Three tribes of mortal beings
 8 Intro|      generation and space, these three, existed before the heavens,
 9 Intro|        square of the longer side three times as great as the square
10 Intro|          For as they are formed, three of them from the triangle
11 Intro|  triangle which has equal sides, three can be resolved into one
12 Intro|        twice the lesser side the three first regular solids are
13 Intro|     element, the fever intermits three days and is with difficulty
14 Intro|           and are carried to the three places of the soul, creating
15 Intro|         all in a word: there are three kinds of soul located within
16 Intro|      duly train and exercise all three kinds.~The divine soul God
17 Intro|       appear. Two are truer than three, one than two. The words ‘
18 Intro|        greatest alike. One, two, three, counted on the fingers
19 Intro|          essence, and out of the three combined created the soul
20 Intro|         the essence (compare the three principles of the Philebus—
21 Intro|        The stability of the last three increases with the number
22 Intro|       regular solid figures: (3) three of them, fire, air, and
23 Intro|          in the ratio of two and three, three of either:—the Sun,
24 Intro|          ratio of two and three, three of either:—the Sun, moving
25 Intro|          swiftness to the former three and to one another. Thus
26 Intro|       man is divided by him into three parts, answering roughly
27 Intro|           Rep.), and consists of three elements—the light which
28 Intro|         that Plato had purchased three books of his writings from
29 Intro|          good. He found them all three, in the Pythagorean philosophy
30 Timae| Hermocrates.~SOCRATES: One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus,
31 Timae|       union. For whenever in any three numbers, whether cube or
32 Timae|        and material. He took the three elements of the same, the
33 Timae|      with the essence and out of three made one, he again divided
34 Timae|          again as the second and three times as much as the first (
35 Timae|       and a fifth part which was three times the third (9), and
36 Timae|   intervals in ratios of two and three, three of each, and bade
37 Timae|         ratios of two and three, three of each, and bade the orbits
38 Timae|     opposite to one another; and three (Sun, Mercury, Venus) he
39 Timae|         unequal swiftness to the three and to one another, but
40 Timae|        and of the essence, these three, and is divided and united
41 Timae|       listen to my instructions:—Three tribes of mortal beings
42 Timae|       other or diverse, that the three double intervals (i.e. between
43 Timae|     between 1, 2, 4, 8), and the three triple intervals (i.e. between
44 Timae|         have only to conceive of three natures: first, that which
45 Timae|      space and generation, these three, existed in their three
46 Timae|          three, existed in their three ways before the heaven;
47 Timae|         the longer side equal to three times the square of the
48 Timae|         have selected four kinds—three from the one which has the
49 Timae|       ones, or the converse. But three of them can be thus resolved
50 Timae|   diagonal, and this is repeated three times, and the triangles
51 Timae|      together, make out of every three plane angles one solid angle,
52 Timae|       made by the combination of three plane right angles; the
53 Timae|       hard skin partaking of all three natures, and was fabricated
54 Timae|       conceived of as arising in three ways; for they are produced
55 Timae|         and being carried to the three places of the soul, whichever
56 Timae|          remarked that there are three kinds of soul located within