Dialogue

 1 Intro|          grandeur of the opening discourse of Timaeus may be compared
 2 Intro|        education to share in our discourse.’~HERMOCRATES: ‘We will
 3 Intro|         whole of our yesterday’s discourse, I was able to recall every
 4 Intro|         of which the rest of our discourse is to be framed, let us
 5 Timae|          theme of my yesterday’s discourse was the State—how constituted
 6 Timae| entertained you, with a feast of discourse. Here am I in festive array,
 7 Timae|         I could remember all the discourse of yesterday, but I should
 8 Timae|        return for my yesterday’s discourse will now rest and be a listener.~
 9 Timae|        we, too, who are going to discourse of the nature of the universe,
10 Timae|          the side of them in our discourse the things which come into
11 Timae|        at the commencement of my discourse, I call upon God, and beg
12 Timae|  interpolate in our present long discourse a digression equally long,
13 Timae|       which the remainder of our discourse must be woven, just as wood
14 Timae|       and which in the preceding discourse we have named the seed.
15 Timae|          We may now say that our discourse about the nature of the