The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |       Herculean’ labours, as I may call them, which I endured only
  2 Text |            are.~But this is what I call the facetious riddle invented
  3 Text |     kindred, as Meletus and Anytus call me; not the corrupted youth
  4 Text |            wise man; for they will call me wise, even although I
  5 Text |         judges—for you I may truly call judges—I should like to


Charmides
    Part
  6 PreS |            to which I must briefly call attention, lest I should
  7 PreS |         distinctions, as we should call them, whether of ontology
  8 Text |          Solon. But why do you not call him, and show him to us?
  9 Text |         well, he said; then I will call him; and turning to the
 10 Text |            the attendant, he said, Call Charmides, and tell him
 11 Text |            And which is better, to call to mind, and to remember,
 12 Text |          be reasonably supposed to call him wise who does his own
 13 Text |           well knew that you would call that which is proper to
 14 Text |       Greek) of the good you would call doings (Greek), for I am


Cratylus
    Part
 15 Intro|       Socrates, that if I agree to call a man a horse, then a man
 16 Intro|         Hephaestus, ‘whom the Gods call Xanthus, and men call Scamander;’
 17 Intro|         Gods call Xanthus, and men call Scamander;’ or in the lines
 18 Intro|            the bird which the Gods call ‘Chalcis,’ and men ‘Cymindis;’
 19 Intro|              or the hill which men call ‘Batieia,’ and the Gods ‘
 20 Intro|        receive any name by which I call him.’ And to avoid offence,
 21 Intro|           for example, what we now call emera was formerly called
 22 Intro|         then, why do the Eritreans call that skleroter which we
 23 Intro|            that skleroter which we call sklerotes? We can understand
 24 Intro|       skleroter;’ ‘the Thessalians call Apollo Amlos;’ ‘The Phrygians
 25 Intro|           of animals; for they too call to one another and are answered.
 26 Intro|        only can men utter a cry or call, but they can communicate
 27 Intro|         parts of speech, as we may call them by anticipation, like
 28 Intro|       grammarian or logician might call them, yet at a later stage
 29 Intro|          expression of what we now call human thoughts and feelings.
 30 Intro|   intermediate between what we now call language and the cry of
 31 Text |           If all the world were to call you Hermogenes, that would
 32 Text |            which anybody agrees to call it?~HERMOGENES: That is
 33 Text |           instance;—suppose that I call a man a horse or a horse
 34 Text |           ask and answer you would call a dialectician?~HERMOGENES:
 35 Text |        must clearly be supposed to call things by their right and
 36 Text |    HERMOGENES: Why, of course they call them rightly, if they call
 37 Text |         call them rightly, if they call them at all. But to what
 38 Text |              as he says, ‘the Gods call Xanthus, and men call Scamander.’~
 39 Text |         Gods call Xanthus, and men call Scamander.’~HERMOGENES:
 40 Text |       which, as he says,~‘The Gods call Chalcis, and men Cymindis:’~
 41 Text |            Il. ‘The hill which men call Batieia and the immortals
 42 Text |            calf, then I should not call that a foal but a calf;
 43 Text |          foal but a calf; nor do I call any inhuman birth a man,
 44 Text |          some person who wanted to call him Talantatos (the most
 45 Text |           into two parts, for some call him Zena, and use the one
 46 Text |      others who use the other half call him Dia; the two together
 47 Text |        SOCRATES: Then you may well call that power phuseche which
 48 Text |            the names by which they call themselves, whatever they
 49 Text |           in prayers, that we will call them by any sort or kind
 50 Text |          are led by their fears to call the God Pluto instead.~HERMOGENES:
 51 Text |            for all the Thessalians call him Aplos; also he is aei
 52 Text |          appellation?~SOCRATES: We call her Pallas.~HERMOGENES:
 53 Text |           the use of the hands, we call shaking (pallein), or dancing.~
 54 Text |          speeches, you may rightly call him Eirhemes.’ And this
 55 Text |        Doric form, for the Dorians call him alios, and this name
 56 Text |         air is wind, and the poets call the winds ‘air-blasts,’ (
 57 Text |       other charming words, as you call them?~HERMOGENES: Surely,
 58 Text |     SOCRATES: And if a man were to call him Hermogenes, would he
 59 Text |            a doubt whether you can call him Hermogenes, if he is
 60 Text |          to figures or to names, I call right, and when applied
 61 Text |            name which is unlike, I call wrong, and in the case of
 62 Text |          assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment
 63 Text |             according to which you call small great and great small—


Critias
    Part
 64 Text |           which we use for food—we call them all by the common name


Crito
    Part
 65 Text |            to play truant (you may call the proceeding by any name
 66 Text |         them? Nay; but if they who call themselves friends are good


Euthydemus
    Part
 67 Text |         them, they laugh at me and call him grandpapa’s master.
 68 Text |            are some whom you would call teachers, are there not?~
 69 Text |           however and whatever you call yourselves, I wonder at


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 70 Text |          excellence of wrestling I call gymnastic, and I want to
 71 Text |            I want to know what you call the other.~ALCIBIADES: I
 72 Text |           another way: what do you call the Goddesses who are the
 73 Text |  good-for-nothing teachers, as you call them.~SOCRATES: Why, yes,
 74 Text |        effects as follows:—You may call either of them evil in respect
 75 Text |         SOCRATES: Then whom do you call the good?~ALCIBIADES: I
 76 Text |          SOCRATES: And what do you call the art of fellow-citizens?~


Gorgias
    Part
 77 Intro|        politics, as he ventures to call himself, cannot safely go
 78 Intro|            sciences. All that they call science is merely the result
 79 Intro|           excuse ourselves? And we call to our aid the rhetoric
 80 Intro|     nothing in them which they can call themselves, they must acquire
 81 Intro|       undertaken a task which will call forth all his powers. He
 82 Intro|           a word or two, which may call up not one but many latent
 83 Text |        Herodicus, what ought we to call him? Ought he not to have
 84 Text |       Polygnotus, what ought we to call him?~POLUS: Clearly, a painter.~
 85 Text |  CHAEREPHON: But now what shall we call him—what is the art in which
 86 Text |           is, and what we ought to call Gorgias: Or rather, Gorgias,
 87 Text |           question,—what are we to call you, and what is the art
 88 Text |             SOCRATES: Then I am to call you a rhetorician?~GORGIAS:
 89 Text |         good one too, if you would call me that which, in Homeric
 90 Text |         SOCRATES: Then why, if you call rhetoric the art which treats
 91 Text |           of discourse, do you not call them arts of rhetoric?~GORGIAS:
 92 Text |            that you really mean to call any of these arts rhetoric;
 93 Text |         say, ‘And so, Gorgias, you call arithmetic rhetoric.’ But
 94 Text |          not think that you really call arithmetic rhetoric any
 95 Text |         compelled to answer, for I call what is bad ignoble: though
 96 Text |          the best. An art I do not call it, but only an experience,
 97 Text |         applications. And I do not call any irrational thing an
 98 Text |           by the great—what do you call him?—not you, for you say
 99 Text |           is a good, and would you call this great power?~POLUS:
100 Text |      wealth and the like you would call goods, and their opposites
101 Text |           are the things which you call neither good nor evil?~POLUS:
102 Text |           institutions, do you not call them beautiful in reference
103 Text |            SOCRATES: And you would call sounds and music beautiful
104 Text |       SOCRATES: And this you would call injustice and ignorance
105 Text |          that to which I assented, call me ‘dolt,’ and deem me unworthy
106 Text |           presume, which you would call knowledge?~CALLICLES: There
107 Text |          Yes.~SOCRATES: And do you call the fools and cowards good
108 Text |            cookery, which I do not call an art, but only an experience,
109 Text |        exhort me, and act what you call the manly part of speaking
110 Text |            his art, and sneeringly call him an engine-maker, and
111 Text |         Because only such benefits call forth a desire to requite


Ion
    Part
112 Text |           and that you could truly call us so; but you rhapsodes


Laches
    Part
113 Text |             SOCRATES: And when you call in an adviser, you should
114 Text |    endeavour to explain; you would call a man courageous who remains
115 Text |        these uses of the word, you call quickness? I should say
116 Text |            more in the end, do you call him courageous?~LACHES:
117 Text |           fear and hope? And him I call the courageous.~SOCRATES:
118 Text |      NICIAS: Why, Laches, I do not call animals or any other things
119 Text |          you imagine that I should call little children courageous,
120 Text |           you, and men in general, call by the term ‘courageous’
121 Text |        courageous’ actions which I call rash;—my courageous actions
122 Text |      knowledge of these things you call courage?~NICIAS: Precisely.~


Laws
    Book
123 1    |    inhabitant of Attica I will not call you, for you seem to deserve
124 1    |      virtue, no matter whether you call them parts or what their
125 1    |     bringing–up of each person, we call one man educated and another
126 1    |          antagonistic; of which we call the one pleasure, and the
127 2    |          and songs; and these they call choruses, which is a term
128 2    |          or applaud them, and they call them base. There are others,
129 2    |            age of thirty, who will call upon the God Paean to testify
130 2    |        accompanying charm which we call pleasure; but that this
131 3    |          her natural lords, that I call folly, just as in the state,
132 3    |            would not answer to the call, or give aid. Many things
133 4    |        more thought, what I should call the government of Lacedaemon,
134 4    |          next in order. And when I call the rulers servants or ministers
135 5    |            in a spot which we will call the Acropolis, and surround
136 5    |           lots to twelve Gods, and call them by their names, and
137 5    |        their several portions, and call the tribes after them. And
138 7    |         minds, that we can neither call these things laws, nor yet
139 7    |         part, but of what I should call the most important part
140 7    |         keep the same path, and we call them planets or wanderers.~
141 8    |     fighting in armour—we ought to call in skilful persons, who
142 8    |            corrupt natures whom we call inferior to themselves,
143 8    |          another, let him who will call in a warden of the city,
144 9    |          they do any harm or not—I call all this injustice. But
145 9    |            or whatever we ought to call it, has been plainly set
146 10   |        then, and if ever we are to call upon the Gods, let us call
147 10   |         call upon the Gods, let us call upon them now in all seriousness
148 10   |            we shall be inclined to call the tenth.~Cleinias. Certainly.~
149 10   |           to ask whether we should call such a self–moving power
150 11   |           prescribed:—No one shall call the Gods to witness, when
151 11   |          Cleinias. And what do you call the true mode of service?~
152 12   |         sake of persuading, nor to call down curses on himself and
153 12   |       further, all four of them we call one; for we say that courage
154 12   |    difficulty in explaining why we call these two and the rest of
155 12   |            is that one thing which call virtue, and then again speak
156 12   |           and which, being one, we call as we ought, by the single
157 12   |           of legislators, as I may call them, would hesitate about


Lysis
    Part
158 Text |            his great friend, shall call him.~That will be the way,
159 Text |          we to say? Whom are we to call friends to one another?


Menexenus
    Part
160 Text |            engagements. And what I call the terrible and desperate


Meno
    Part
161 Text |            tell me then, since you call them by a common name, and
162 Text |        simile in multis’ which you call figure, and which includes
163 Text |           those are what you would call goods?~MENO: Yes, I should
164 Text |         that she should be able to call to remembrance all that
165 Text |            learn, and that what we call learning is only a process
166 Text |            power. Suppose that you call one of your numerous attendants,
167 Text |         the line which the learned call the diagonal. And if this
168 Text |          and the like of these, we call profitable?~MENO: True.~
169 Text |            the people whom mankind call Sophists?~ANYTUS: By Heracles,
170 Text |          reverse.~SOCRATES: Can we call those teachers who do not
171 Text |           you and I have agreed to call it. But when they are bound,
172 Text |            may we not, Meno, truly call those men ‘divine’ who,
173 Text |           And the women too, Meno, call good men divine—do they


Parmenides
    Part
174 Intro|            they contain. We cannot call a new metaphysical world
175 Text |            being is what you would call becoming?~I should.~And
176 Text |   relinquishing of being you would call destruction?~I should.~The
177 Text |            curious nature which we call the moment lying between
178 Text |      certain single form, which we call a whole, being one perfect


Phaedo
    Part
179 Intro|          of balance. That which we call the earth is only one of
180 Intro|        Acherusian lake, where they call upon their victims to let
181 Intro|            existence which she can call her own, as in the pantheistic
182 Text |            not be without a divine call, and that he would be happy,
183 Text |           not the process which we call learning be a recovering
184 Text |     impossibly the other, whom you call Cadmus, may share a similar
185 Text |           not heat (this is what I call the safe and stupid answer),
186 Text |         said, what did we just now call that principle which repels
187 Text |         the unjust.~And what do we call the principle which does
188 Text |            surface; and the air we call the heaven, in which we
189 Text |           lift up their voices and call upon the victims whom they


Phaedrus
    Part
190 Intro|            love, but the immortals call him dove, or the winged
191 Intro|           be conceived. ‘But did I call this “love”? O God, forgive
192 Intro|            him abstractions, as we call them, were another kind
193 Intro|           Nor is there any need to call up revolting associations,
194 Text |       Nonsense, Socrates; what you call repetition was the especial
195 Text |          or of relation, which men call existence, but knowledge
196 Text |    regardless of that which we now call being she raised her head
197 Text |           are as follows:~‘Mortals call him fluttering love, But
198 Text |            love, But the immortals call him winged one, Because
199 Text |          the art of those whom you call, and rightly, in my opinion,
200 Text |             That is what we should call showing the nature of the
201 Text |           Egypt which the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes, and the
202 Text |          SOCRATES: Wise, I may not call them; for that is a great


Philebus
    Part
203 Intro|            states of human life we call happiness? which includes
204 Text |      deliver my soul of you; and I call the goddess herself to witness
205 Text |     oftener bad than good; but you call them all good, and at the
206 Text |            of letters which we now call mutes, without voice and
207 Text |   principle?~PROTARCHUS: So let us call it.~SOCRATES: Quite right;
208 Text |    SOCRATES: Then the first I will call the infinite or unlimited,
209 Text |        Whether all this which they call the universe is left to
210 Text |     gathered up in one, did we not call them a body?~PROTARCHUS:
211 Text |            have we in view when we call them by a single name?~PROTARCHUS:
212 Text |            of its object, shall we call that right or good, or by
213 Text |            false, but no one could call the actual pleasure false.~
214 Text |            truth; for no one would call pleasures and pains bad
215 Text |          we embellish a little and call the first gold, the second
216 Text |      mentioned envy; would you not call that a pain of the soul?~
217 Text |        Tell us, O beloved—shall we call you pleasures or by some


Protagoras
    Part
218 Text |         how is he designated?~They call him a Sophist, Socrates,
219 Text |         the care of a man whom you call a Sophist. And yet I hardly
220 Text |           spoken with him: and you call him a Sophist, but are manifestly
221 Text |           deposit them at home and call in any experienced friend
222 Text |          be inexpedient, and yet I call them good.~I thought that
223 Text | inexpedient altogether? and do you call the latter good?~Certainly
224 Text |       considered that there was no call upon me to continue the
225 Text |        like the rest of the world, call some pleasant things evil
226 Text |            nor evil.~And you would call pleasant, I said, the things
227 Text |          this affection which they call ‘being overcome by pleasure,’
228 Text |             He agreed.~‘And do you call them good because they occasion
229 Text |         pleasure and pain when you call them good?’—they would acknowledge
230 Text |         pleasure. If, however, you call pleasure an evil in relation
231 Text |           speaking about pain? You call pain a good when it takes
232 Text |           which you refer when you call actual pain a good, you
233 Text |       there are two things, let us call them by two names— first,
234 Text |         not this?—tell us what you call such a state:—if we had
235 Text |        whatever name he prefers to call them, I will ask you, most
236 Text |            the cowards act, do you call it cowardice or courage?~


The Republic
    Book
237 1    |          that time which the poets call the "threshold of old age":
238 1    |      subjects-and that is what you call justice? ~Doubtless. ~Then
239 1    |        said. Do you suppose that I call him who is mistaken the
240 1    |         view about them? Would you call one of them virtue and the
241 1    |           I suppose that you would call justice virtue and injustice
242 1    |            replied. ~And would you call justice vice? ~No, I would
243 1    |        simplicity. ~Then would you call injustice malignity? ~No;
244 1    |           I perceive that you will call injustice honorable and
245 2    |            they are quite ready to call wicked men happy, and to
246 2    |         dead; the latter sort they call mysteries, and they redeem
247 2    |          again, when those whom we call our friends in a fit of
248 3    |        comedy-did you not just now call them imitations? ~Yes, I
249 3    |           of the other; and this I call theft. Now you understand
250 4    |      however, which I would rather call, not, great, but sufficient
251 4    |           real and false dangers I call and maintain to be courage,
252 4    |        which a man reasons, we may call the rational principle of
253 4    |            he replied. ~And him we call wise who has in him that
254 4    |     impairs this condition he will call unjust action, and the opinion
255 5    |          who was then married will call all the male children who
256 5    |           daughters, and they will call him father, and he will
257 5    |            him father, and he will call their children his grandchildren,
258 5    |       grandchildren, and they will call the elder generation grandfathers
259 5    |            True. ~All of whom will call one another citizens? ~Of
260 5    |            States? ~Generally they call them masters, but in democratic
261 5    |      democratic States they simply call them rulers. ~And in our
262 5    |             And what do the rulers call the people? ~Their maintainers
263 5    |  foster-fathers. ~And what do they call them in other States? ~Slaves. ~
264 5    |             And what do the rulers call one another in other States? ~
265 5    |        thing which they will alike call "my own," and having this
266 5    |       their persons which they can call their own, suits and complaints
267 5    |         one another, and each will call the other father, brother,
268 5    |     hearing, for example, I should call faculties. Have I clearly
269 5    |       sphere and the same result I call the same faculty, but that
270 5    |        sphere and another result I call different. Would that be
271 5    |      discovered something which we call opinion? ~There has. ~Then
272 5    |           discovered, we may truly call the subject of opinion,
273 6    |       other sort of man, whom they call a good-for-nothing; but
274 6    |         individuals, whom the many call Sophists and whom they deem
275 6    |              And this is he whom I call the child of the good, whom
276 7    |           condensed notes, as they call them; they put their ears
277 7    |      replied, which I would rather call useful; that is, if sought
278 7    |          is the progress which you call dialectic? ~True. ~But the
279 7    |            two for opinion, and to call the first division science,
280 8    |   aristocracy, and whom we rightly call just and good, we have already
281 8    |          enemy; or, if they do not call them out in the hour of
282 8    |           then modesty, which they call silliness, is ignominiously
283 9    |             And may we not rightly call such men treacherous? ~No
284 9    |           fame? ~True. ~Suppose we call it the contentious or ambitious-would
285 9    |           of pleasure? Does he not call the other pleasures necessary,
286 9    |            unless he have a divine call. ~I understand; you mean
287 10   |          bed? ~Yes. ~But would you call the painter a creator and
288 10   |             Good, I said; then you call him who is third in the
289 10   |        have enough of them, we may call irrational, useless, and
290 10   |         There is a thing which you call good and another which you
291 10   |         good and another which you call evil? ~Yes, he replied. ~


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
292 Text |        while the foolish, whom you call mad, are many?~ALCIBIADES:
293 Text |         according to those whom we call physicians, may require
294 Text |          most out of their wits we call ‘madmen,’ while we term
295 Text |      praying for what was best: to call down evils seems more like
296 Text |            do.~SOCRATES: Would you call a person wise who can give
297 Text |           an one, I say, we should call wise and a useful adviser
298 Text |      nature of an art,—what do you call him who knows what is best
299 Text |         whom?~ALCIBIADES: I should call such a state bad, Socrates.~
300 Text |          not saying that you would call the many unwise and the
301 Text |          whether it pleases him to call it mist or anything else!


The Seventh Letter
    Part
302 Text |         those who make changes and call things by opposite names,
303 Text |           I told him that he might call my friends to his aid, if
304 Text |           at injuring one another, call others to your aid.” This


The Sophist
    Part
305 Intro|   purification? Sophists I may not call them. Yet they bear about
306 Intro|           left in his hole. We may call him an image-maker if we
307 Intro|      father Parmenides; but do not call me a parricide; for there
308 Intro|           former I will venture to call the imitation of science,
309 Intro|             what we are pleased to call our minds,’ by reverting
310 Text |             STRANGER: And shall we call our new friend unskilled,
311 Text |        STRANGER: And would you not call by the same name him who
312 Text |            have been accustomed to call argumentation (Eristic)?~
313 Text |           is the other, which they call ignorance, and which, because
314 Text |            like, may we not fairly call a likeness or image?~THEAETETUS:
315 Text |            not, as I did just now, call that part of the imitative
316 Text |        STRANGER: And what shall we call those resemblances of the
317 Text |     profess to be like? May we not call these ‘appearances,’ since
318 Text |    STRANGER: And may we not fairly call the sort of art, which produces
319 Text |        upon ourselves; and when we call him an image-maker he will
320 Text |          speak of as many, and yet call by the single name of image,
321 Text |             STRANGER: Then what we call an image is in reality really
322 Text |             I conceive, will be to call into our presence the dualistic
323 Text |       there is something which you call ‘being’?~THEAETETUS: ‘Yes.’~
324 Text |         account of that which they call essence.~THEAETETUS: How
325 Text |      argument and yet forbid us to call anything, because participating
326 Text |            STRANGER: How are we to call it? By Zeus, have we not
327 Text |             STRANGER: And shall we call the other a fifth class?
328 Text |          in the same sense; but we call it the ‘same,’ in relation
329 Text |            It has; for whatever we call not-beautiful is other than
330 Text |       STRANGER: What then shall we call it?~THEAETETUS: Clearly,
331 Text |           what we have ventured to call not-being.~THEAETETUS: And
332 Text |            which denotes action we call a verb.~THEAETETUS: True.~
333 Text |       those who do the actions, we call a noun.~THEAETETUS: Quite
334 Text |            learns,’ should you not call this the simplest and least
335 Text |         any other name by which to call it but opinion?~THEAETETUS:
336 Text |            of sense, would you not call it imagination?~THEAETETUS:
337 Text |  distinctness, I will make bold to call the imitation which coexists
338 Text |        STRANGER: And what shall we call the other? Is he the philosopher


The Statesman
    Part
339 Intro|          of physicians and pilots, call together an assembly, in
340 Intro|           of courage, which we may call the warp, with the softer
341 Text |            you.~STRANGER: Shall we call this art of tending many
342 Text |           because you were able to call them by the common name
343 Text |      herdsmen of humanity, whom we call Statesmen, declaring that
344 Text |            no reason why we should call this the royal or political
345 Text |     Certainly.~STRANGER: And if we call the management of violent
346 Text |           superintends them we may call, from the nature of the
347 Text |         comprehended under what we call the fuller’s art.~YOUNG
348 Text |         Yes, certainly, and let us call one part of the art the
349 Text |        Very good.~STRANGER: Let us call to mind the bearing of all
350 Text |            of states—what shall we call them?~YOUNG SOCRATES: They
351 Text |             For kings we may truly call those who possess royal
352 Text |       explain the nature of what I call the second best?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
353 Text |     imitation of him who knows, we call him a king; and if he rules
354 Text |          nature, most truly we may call politics.~YOUNG SOCRATES:


The Symposium
    Part
355 Intro|        Mantinea, and which you may call the encomium of love, or
356 Text |       fixed,’ said he, ‘and when I call to him he will not stir.’~
357 Text |        said Agathon; then you must call him again, and keep calling
358 Text |          of Zeus and Dione —her we call common; and the Love who
359 Text |           mate, man or woman as we call them,—being the sections
360 Text |          he replied.~And would you call that beautiful which wants
361 Text |         spoken, you, Phaedrus, may call an encomium of love, or
362 Text |             as I may be allowed to call him. Will you laugh at me


Theaetetus
    Part
363 Intro|       Seeing that he is not within call, we must examine the question
364 Intro|           his cunning; when others call him rogue, he says to himself: ‘
365 Intro|          recollection, and when we call for one the other quickly
366 Intro|           by which he is taught to call it. Soon he learns to utter
367 Intro|           independent and which we call ourselves? How does the
368 Intro|         smell or taste, will often call up some thought or recollection
369 Text |       relative; you cannot rightly call anything by any name, such
370 Text |          to vision; that which you call white colour is not in your
371 Text |           motion, and that what we call a colour is in each case
372 Text |            when it becomes like we call it the same—when unlike,
373 Text |            which the inexperienced call true, I maintain to be only
374 Text |            dear Socrates, I do not call wise men tadpoles: far from
375 Text |            But as he is not within call, we must make the best use
376 Text |      liberty and leisure, whom you call the philosopher,—him we
377 Text |           or whatever we please to call it, of which they are the
378 Text |            SOCRATES: And would you call the two processes by the
379 Text |          hot?~THEAETETUS: I should call all of them perceiving—what


Timaeus
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380 Intro|       beginning of any enterprise, call upon the Gods; and he who
381 Intro|            required, which I shall call the receptacle or nurse
382 Intro|            fire and water which we call tears. The inner fire flashes
383 Intro|         produces a colour which we call auburn. The law of proportion,
384 Intro|          hence the liquid which we call blood is red, being the
385 Text |         the same whom the Hellenes call Athene; they are great lovers
386 Text |     whether small or great, always call upon God. And we, too, who
387 Text |           unity; and this image we call time. For there were no
388 Text |       lighted a fire, which we now call the sun, in the second from
389 Text |            are corrected, and they call the same and the other by
390 Text |           that perception which we call sight. But when night comes
391 Text |    commencement of my discourse, I call upon God, and beg him to
392 Text |         example, fire, we must not call ‘this’ or ‘that,’ but rather
393 Text |           That is gold; and not to call the triangle or any other
394 Text |          all those things which we call self-existent exist? or
395 Text |           And is all that which we call an intelligible essence
396 Text |            that affection which we call heat; and hence the origin
397 Text |         than the larger; and so we call the former light, and the
398 Text |            which it is impelled we call above, and the contrary
399 Text |        contrary state and place we call heavy and below respectively.
400 Text |            an opposite tendency we call by an opposite name. Such
401 Text |          are imperceptible, and we call them transparent. The larger
402 Text |            fire and water which we call tears, being itself an opposite
403 Text |          inspiration. Some persons call them prophets; they are
404 Text |           double process, which we call inspiration and expiration.~
405 Text |    described. The liquid itself we call blood, which nourishes the
406 Text |         the double nature which we call the living being; and when
407 Text |         imitation of that which we call the foster-mother and nurse