Dialogue

 1 Intro|    and that is fair which the artificer makes after an eternal pattern,
 2 Intro|   made to be the guardian and artificer of night and day, first
 3 Intro|   made to be the guardian and artificer of night and day, first
 4 Intro|      as to whether the words ‘artificer of day and night’ are consistent
 5 Intro|     The meaning of the words ‘artificer of day and night’ is literally
 6 Intro|  pattern he is like the human artificer in the Republic. Here the
 7 Timae|       of the patterns had the artificer in view when he made the
 8 Timae|  world be indeed fair and the artificer good, it is manifest that
 9 Timae| framed to be the guardian and artificer of night and day, first
10 Timae|   works, and of whom I am the artificer and father, my creations