Dialogue

 1 Intro|       that the Timaeus is by no means confined to speculations
 2 Intro|    would have sufficed, but two means are required to unite solid
 3 Intro|        numbers are two kinds of means; the one exceeds and is
 4 Intro| transmitted through the ears by means of the air, brain, and blood
 5 Intro|        have now to speak of the means by which the mind and body
 6 Intro|         can we of the other. He means (3) to say that the creation
 7 Intro|         God that was to be.’ He means (4) to draw an absolute
 8 Intro|        visible and changing. He means (5) that the idea of the
 9 Intro|           By (Greek) he clearly means some conception of the intelligible
10 Intro|      bond which is given by two means is stronger than the single
11 Intro|      supposes, not that (Greek) means ‘revolving,’ or that this
12 Intro|  network of a creel.’ He really means by this what we should describe
13 Intro|     liver, being transmitted by means of the air, the brain, and
14 Intro|    quite recent times. We by no means distinguish clearly between
15 Intro|         like this is what Plato means when he speaks of the soul ‘
16 Timae|    first and last both becoming means, they will all of them of
17 Timae|         there were two kinds of means, the one exceeding and exceeded
18 Timae|      body to be its vehicle and means of locomotion; which consequently
19 Timae|     ears, and is transmitted by means of the air, the brain, and
20 Timae|         bile. When bile finds a means of discharge, it boils up