Dialogue

 1 Intro| thunderbolt. For there occurs at long intervals a derangement
 2 Intro|   remaining part he divided into long and round figures, and to
 3 Intro|        would have lived twice as long. But our creators were of
 4 Intro|          decompose blackens from long burning, and from being
 5 Intro| deformities. A leg or an arm too long or too short is at once
 6 Intro|       have slowly accumulated in long periods of time (Hdt.).
 7 Intro|          Arist. Metaph.). Having long meditated on the properties
 8 Intro|         one body upon another in long periods of time have become
 9 Timae|        earth, which recurs after long intervals; at such times
10 Timae|       speak at the moment. For a long time had elapsed, and I
11 Timae|          which I have heard very long ago. I listened at the time
12 Timae|       interpolate in our present long discourse a digression equally
13 Timae|   discourse a digression equally long, but if it is possible to
14 Timae|          reason of this would be long to tell; he who disproves
15 Timae|        in the same state. But so long as in the process of transition
16 Timae|      life twice or many times as long as it now has, and also
17 Timae|     never at any time ceasing so long as the mortal being holds
18 Timae|          hard to decompose, from long burning grows black, and
19 Timae|         body which has a leg too long, or which is unsymmetrical
20 Timae|        when remaining unfruitful long beyond its proper time,