Dialogue

 1 Intro|   friendship in the union of the four elements; and being at unity
 2 Intro|     swiftness, and the remaining four—the Moon, Saturn, Mars,
 3 Intro|       divine original. There are four of them: one of gods, another
 4 Intro|          third kind, because the four elements themselves are
 5 Intro|      must determine what are the four most beautiful figures which
 6 Intro|        in imagining that all the four elements could be generated
 7 Intro|    perfection to produce all the four elements. These God took
 8 Intro|         forms. Some of them have four feet, and some of them more
 9 Intro|       and some of them more than four,—the latter, who are the
10 Intro|          or substances; even the four elements were undefined;
11 Intro|         a body formed out of the four elements. The general meaning
12 Intro|         to the ancients were the four elements, he was led to
13 Intro|       Empedocles, supposed to be four in number—fire, air, earth,
14 Intro|       sizes, the surfaces of the four elements are constructed.~
15 Intro|         proceeds to generate the four first of the five. He perhaps
16 Intro|          and sides are formed by four equilateral or twenty-four
17 Intro|   scalene triangles. Each of the four solid angles in this figure
18 Intro|      make one solid angle out of four plane angles—six of these
19 Intro|     formed by the combination of four isosceles triangles into
20 Intro|       the creation: (2) they are four in number, and are formed
21 Intro|         swiftness; the remaining four, Moon, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter,
22 Intro|       natural proportions of the four elements are disturbed,
23 Intro|         circulate in it. All the four elements entered into the
24 Intro|        thinker is uncertain. The four elements are taken from
25 Timae|     elements which are in number four, the body of the world was
26 Timae|         the whole of each of the four elements; for the Creator
27 Timae|     swiftness, and the remaining four (Moon, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter)
28 Timae|     nature and number. There are four such; one of them is the
29 Timae|         making up out of all the four elements each separate body,
30 Timae|    length and was furnished with four limbs extended and flexible;
31 Timae|     another. In this manner, the four kinds or elements were then
32 Timae|        to determine what are the four most beautiful bodies which
33 Timae|       endeavour to construct the four forms of bodies which excel
34 Timae|        in imagining that all the four elements might be generated
35 Timae| triangles which we have selected four kinds—three from the one
36 Timae|        out of six triangles; and four equilateral triangles, if
37 Timae|         the combination of these four angles arises the first
38 Timae|      form one solid angle out of four plane angles, and out of
39 Timae|           which is compounded of four such triangles, joining
40 Timae|       created in idea, among the four elements.~To earth, then,
41 Timae|       the most immoveable of the four and the most plastic of
42 Timae|    single particle of any of the four kinds is seen by us on account
43 Timae|         there are species of the four elements. Hence when they
44 Timae|         are comprehended all the four elements, and this being
45 Timae|        of them are nameless, but four which are of a fiery nature
46 Timae|        diseases arise. There are four natures out of which the
47 Timae|       sinews are composed of the four elements, and the blood,
48 Timae|         the most sluggish of the four, and is only purged away