Dialogue

 1 Intro| artificer makes after an eternal pattern, but whatever is fashioned
 2 Intro|        fashioned after a created pattern is not fair. Is the world
 3 Intro|         according to the eternal pattern is the copy of something;
 4 Intro|   visible animal, made after the pattern of this, included all visible
 5 Intro|         would have been the true pattern of the world; and therefore
 6 Intro|          and there is an eternal pattern of the world, which, like
 7 Intro|          separable from him. The pattern too, though eternal, is
 8 Intro|         likeness of this eternal pattern. On the other hand, there
 9 Intro|         himself? For the idea or pattern of the world is not the
10 Intro|          according to an eternal pattern, out of his goodness has
11 Intro|         between them the idea or pattern according to which mind
12 Intro|        eye fixed upon an eternal pattern he is like the human artificer
13 Timae|       work after an unchangeable pattern, must necessarily be made
14 Timae|         only, and uses a created pattern, it is not fair or perfect.
15 Timae|       when he made the world—the pattern of the unchangeable, or
16 Timae|        true, then to the created pattern. Every one will see that
17 Timae|          It was framed after the pattern of the eternal nature, that
18 Timae|         as was possible; for the pattern exists from eternity, and
19 Timae|          after the nature of the pattern. Now as in the ideal animal
20 Timae|          which we assumed, was a pattern intelligible and always
21 Timae|        only the imitation of the pattern, generated and visible.
22 Timae|      manner, in imitation of the pattern of the universe; for as