Dialogue

 1 Intro|  the rational and invisible ones—these he investigates first,
 2 Intro|   place, the light and airy ones in another. At first they
 3 Intro| trying to eject the smaller ones in the body which they compress.
 4 Intro|    smaller bodies to larger ones. Had he confined himself
 5 Intro|     lesser bodies to larger ones, but of similar bodies to
 6 Timae|     your class are the only ones remaining who are fitted
 7 Timae|     water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes.
 8 Timae|    there were many previous ones; in the next place, you
 9 Timae|   as these and still better ones, and excelled all mankind
10 Timae|   combined into a few large ones, or the converse. But three
11 Timae|     enclosed in many larger ones, are in process of decomposition