Dialogue

 1 Intro|         same. Thus arose day and night, which are the periods of
 2 Intro|        guardian and artificer of night and day, first and eldest
 3 Intro|     corresponding visions of the night. And now we shall be able
 4 Intro|    sweetness and freedom, and at night, moderation and peace accompanied
 5 Intro|        of Chaos, Erebus, Aether, Night, and the like, the first
 6 Intro|        the recurrence of day and night and of the seasons, the
 7 Intro| accomplished in a single day and night, is described as being the
 8 Intro|        guardian and artificer of night and day, first and eldest
 9 Intro|      words ‘artificer of day and night’ are consistent with the
10 Intro|       the alternation of day and night; since the equal motion
11 Intro|         Of the causes of day and night the pre-Socratic philosophers,
12 Intro|       the alternation of day and night, neither need we suppose
13 Intro|      words ‘artificer of day and night’ is literally true according
14 Intro|       the alternation of day and night is not produced by the motion
15 Timae|          and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike
16 Timae|          I left them, during the night by thinking I recovered
17 Timae|          and for this reason the night and the day were created,
18 Timae|        guardian and artificer of night and day, first and eldest
19 Timae|          we call sight. But when night comes on and the external
20 Timae|         now the sight of day and night, and the months and the
21 Timae|          by phantoms and visions night and day,—to be a remedy
22 Timae|          enabling it to pass the night in peace, and to practise