Dialogue

 1 Intro|    beginning of any enterprise, call upon the Gods; and he who
 2 Intro|         required, which I shall call the receptacle or nurse
 3 Intro|         fire and water which we call tears. The inner fire flashes
 4 Intro|      produces a colour which we call auburn. The law of proportion,
 5 Intro|       hence the liquid which we call blood is red, being the
 6 Timae|      the same whom the Hellenes call Athene; they are great lovers
 7 Timae|  whether small or great, always call upon God. And we, too, who
 8 Timae|        unity; and this image we call time. For there were no
 9 Timae|    lighted a fire, which we now call the sun, in the second from
10 Timae|         are corrected, and they call the same and the other by
11 Timae|        that perception which we call sight. But when night comes
12 Timae| commencement of my discourse, I call upon God, and beg him to
13 Timae|      example, fire, we must not call ‘this’ or ‘that,’ but rather
14 Timae|        That is gold; and not to call the triangle or any other
15 Timae|       all those things which we call self-existent exist? or
16 Timae|        And is all that which we call an intelligible essence
17 Timae|         that affection which we call heat; and hence the origin
18 Timae|      than the larger; and so we call the former light, and the
19 Timae|         which it is impelled we call above, and the contrary
20 Timae|     contrary state and place we call heavy and below respectively.
21 Timae|         an opposite tendency we call by an opposite name. Such
22 Timae|       are imperceptible, and we call them transparent. The larger
23 Timae|         fire and water which we call tears, being itself an opposite
24 Timae|       inspiration. Some persons call them prophets; they are
25 Timae|        double process, which we call inspiration and expiration.~
26 Timae| described. The liquid itself we call blood, which nourishes the
27 Timae|      the double nature which we call the living being; and when
28 Timae|      imitation of that which we call the foster-mother and nurse