Cratylus
    Part
  1 Intro|            stars, earth, aether, air, fire, water, seasons, years?’
  2 Intro|              replies, that justice is fire in the abstract, or heat
  3 Text |            stars, earth, aether, air, fire, water, the seasons, and
  4 Text |               What do you say of pur (fire) and udor (water)?~SOCRATES:
  5 Text |             honest opinion, he says, ‘Fire in the abstract’; but this
  6 Text |                Another says, ‘No, not fire in the abstract, but the
  7 Text |            abstraction of heat in the fire.’ Another man professes


Critias
    Part
  8 Text |            the victim they put in the fire, after having purified the
  9 Text |             pouring a libation on the fire, they swore that they would
 10 Text |             darkness came on, and the fire about the sacrifice was
 11 Text |             and extinguishing all the fire about the temple, they received


Gorgias
    Part
 12 Intro|            way, or setting a house on fire, is real power. To this


Laws
    Book
 13 2    |                we will tell them that fire must not be poured upon
 14 2    |               must not be poured upon fire, whether in the body or
 15 2    |               like iron melted in the fire, may become softer and so
 16 2    |               like iron heated in the fire, and grow softer and younger,
 17 3    |            capable of standing on the fire or not; for the plastic
 18 3    |            devastate cities, and send fire and desolation among friendly
 19 6    |     legislator “combing wool into the fire,” as people say, or performing
 20 6    |           breaks out last, and is the fire of sexual lust, which kindles
 21 8    |             damage; or if anyone sets fire to his own wood and takes
 22 9    |              seeds can be softened by fire. Among our citizens there
 23 9    |              or by the application of fire or cold, or by suffocating
 24 10   |           more clearly. They say that fire and water, and earth and
 25 10   |            talks in this way conceive fire and water and earth and
 26 10   |             primeval element, and not fire or air, then in the truest
 27 10   |              with an external body of fire or air, as some affirm,
 28 10   |               element of water out of fire, instead of forming many
 29 12   |             figure to things woven by fire, they both (i.e., Atropos
 30 12   |           both (i.e., Atropos and the fire) producing the quality of


Parmenides
    Part
 31 Intro|             like ourselves, of water, fire, and the like?’ ‘I am not
 32 Text |          other human creatures, or of fire and water?~I am often undecided,


Phaedo
    Part
 33 Intro|             and heat are opposed; and fire, which is inseparable from
 34 Intro|       Tartarus, into which streams of fire and water and liquid mud
 35 Intro|         Pyriphlegethon is a stream of fire, which coils round the earth
 36 Intro|          cannot be got rid of, or the fire of genius which refuses
 37 Intro|           magnet, or of a particle of fire, or of light, or air, or
 38 Text |             think, or the air, or the fire? or perhaps nothing of the
 39 Text |              But are they the same as fire and snow?~Most assuredly
 40 Text |             is a thing different from fire, and cold is not the same
 41 Text |             true, he replied.~And the fire too at the advance of the
 42 Text |               or perish; and when the fire is under the influence of
 43 Text |            will not remain as before, fire and cold.~That is true,
 44 Text |               not receive the odd, or fire the cold—from these examples (
 45 Text |               and stupid answer), but fire, a far superior answer,
 46 Text |      principle were imperishable, the fire when assailed by cold would
 47 Text |            will admit of the even, or fire or the heat in the fire,
 48 Text |               fire or the heat in the fire, of the cold. Yet a person
 49 Text |               would have held good of fire and heat and any other thing.~
 50 Text |             hot and cold, and a great fire, and great rivers of fire,
 51 Text |             fire, and great rivers of fire, and streams of liquid mud,
 52 Text |           pours into a vast region of fire, and forms a lake larger
 53 Text |               which throws up jets of fire in different parts of the


Philebus
    Part
 54 Intro|         Prometheus, who gave the true fire from heaven, is supposed
 55 Intro|              the elements earth, air, fire, water, exist in us, and
 56 Text |            the bodies of all animals, fire, water, air, and, as the
 57 Text |              of all of them; there is fire within us, and in the universe.~
 58 Text |              SOCRATES: And is not our fire small and weak and mean?
 59 Text |            and weak and mean? But the fire in the universe is wonderful
 60 Text |               and in every power that fire has.~PROTARCHUS: Most true.~
 61 Text |            true.~SOCRATES: And is the fire in the universe nourished
 62 Text |            generated and ruled by the fire in us, or is the fire in
 63 Text |             the fire in us, or is the fire in you and me, and in other
 64 Text |            dependent on the universal fire?~PROTARCHUS: That is a question
 65 Text |           then if you put them to the fire, and as a last resort apply


Protagoras
    Part
 66 Text |       fashioned them out of earth and fire and various mixtures of
 67 Text |            Hephaestus and Athene, and fire with them (they could neither
 68 Text |             acquired nor used without fire), and gave them to man.
 69 Text |         Hephaestus’ art of working by fire, and also the art of Athene,


The Republic
    Book
 70 2    |      myrtle-berries and acorns at the fire, drinking in moderation.
 71 3    |              that they should light a fire, and not involving the trouble
 72 6    |           gold tried in the refiner's fire, was to be made a ruler,
 73 7    |               Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance,
 74 7    |             distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there
 75 7    |             of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall
 76 7    |               sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and you will
 77 7    |             images cast by a light of fire, which compared with the
 78 8    |             The evil blazes up like a fire; and they will not extinguish
 79 8    |          freemen, has fallen into the fire which is the tyranny of


The Seventh Letter
    Part
 80 Text |          really been kindled with the fire of philosophy, or whether
 81 Text |              the course of nature, to fire, water, and all such things,


The Sophist
    Part
 82 Text |          night, and by the light of a fire, and is by the hunters themselves
 83 Text |              of which things are made—fire, water, and the like—are
 84 Text |             when darkness arises in a fire, or the reflection which


The Statesman
    Part
 85 Intro|               Prometheus brought them fire, Hephaestus and Athene taught
 86 Intro|               or dry, prepared in the fire or out of the fire. The
 87 Intro|             in the fire or out of the fire. The royal or political
 88 Intro|            drawn off in the refiner’s fire before the gold can become
 89 Text |       education as was indispensable; fire was given to them by Prometheus,
 90 Text |             of things prepared in the fire or out of the fire; this
 91 Text |             in the fire or out of the fire; this is a very large class,
 92 Text |              can only be separated by fire,—copper, silver, and other


Theaetetus
    Part
 93 Intro|              life, and rest of death: fire and warmth are produced
 94 Intro|             of two years old sees the fire once and again, and the
 95 Text |        not-being and destruction; for fire and warmth, which are supposed
 96 Text |             is not this the origin of fire?~THEAETETUS: It is.~SOCRATES:


Timaeus
    Part
 97 Intro|             the two great agencies of fire and water. The former is
 98 Intro|             the earth is destroyed by fire. At such times, and when
 99 Intro|               At such times, and when fire is the agent, those who
100 Intro|              Nile is our saviour from fire, and as there is little
101 Intro|         visible and therefore made of fire,—tangible and therefore
102 Intro|               between the elements of fire and earth God placed two
103 Intro|              a continuous proportion—~fire:air::air:water, and air:
104 Intro|               them. And God lighted a fire in the second orbit from
105 Intro|               were created chiefly of fire, that they might be bright,
106 Intro|             sway over the elements of fire, air, earth, water, which
107 Intro|               portions of earth, air, fire, water, hereafter to be
108 Intro|             into contact with flaming fire, or the solid earth, or
109 Intro|               and we go to sleep. The fire or light, when kept in by
110 Intro|             the heavens there existed fire, air, water, earth, which
111 Intro|        compelled to speak of water or fire, not as substances, but
112 Intro|           matter is neither earth nor fire nor air nor water, but an
113 Intro|              speaking generally, that fire is that part of this nature
114 Intro|                Is there an essence of fire and the other elements,
115 Intro|              by water and inflamed by fire, and taking the forms of
116 Intro|               have made you familiar. Fire, air, earth, and water are
117 Intro|              the original elements of fire and the other bodies; what
118 Intro|            affirm that, out of these, fire and the other elements have
119 Intro|             to the other elements,—to fire the pyramid, to air the
120 Intro|           more penetrating element of fire, whether acting immediately
121 Intro|                Water, when divided by fire or air, becomes one part
122 Intro|              or air, becomes one part fire, and two parts air. A volume
123 Intro|            air divided becomes two of fire. On the other hand, when
124 Intro|             condensed, two volumes of fire make a volume of air; and
125 Intro|             which is fastened upon by fire is cut by the sharpness
126 Intro|           length, coalescing with the fire, it is at rest; for similars
127 Intro|             lighter elements, such as fire and air, are thrust into
128 Intro|          there are different kinds of fire— (1) flame, (2) light that
129 Intro|             red heat of the embers of fire. And there are varieties
130 Intro|              melts at the approach of fire, and then spreads upon the
131 Intro|              the substance cools, the fire passes into the air, which
132 Intro|           Water which is mingled with fire is called liquid because
133 Intro|           equable when separated from fire and air, and then congeals
134 Intro|              the earth, when fused by fire, becomes, on cooling, a
135 Intro|         soluble by water, but only by fire. Earth itself, when not
136 Intro|          water; when consolidated, by fire only. The cohesion of water,
137 Intro|               strong, is dissolved by fire only; when weak, either
138 Intro|           when weak, either by air or fire, the former entering the
139 Intro|         condensed is only resolved by fire. Compounds of earth and
140 Intro|             but begin to liquefy when fire enters into the interstices
141 Intro|             body and soul.~What makes fire burn? The fineness of the
142 Intro|                which is the figure of fire, is more cutting than any
143 Intro|             motion of another sort of fire which forces a way through
144 Intro|          elicits from them a union of fire and water which we call
145 Intro|              we call tears. The inner fire flashes forth, and the outer
146 Intro|          There is yet another sort of fire which mingles with the moisture
147 Intro|               thrust alternately into fire and water, and thus rendered
148 Intro|            Creator mingled earth with fire and water and mixed with
149 Intro|               the head was pierced by fire, and out of the punctures
150 Intro|               retaining food, but not fire and air. God therefore formed
151 Intro|         therefore formed a network of fire and air to irrigate the
152 Intro|               net were made by him of fire, the lesser nets and their
153 Intro|              within him a fountain of fire, the air which is inhaled
154 Intro|           entered toward the place of fire. On leaving the body it
155 Intro|           turn heated by the internal fire and escapes, as it entered,
156 Intro|         phenomena of respiration. The fire, entering the belly, minces
157 Intro|              but the colour of red or fire predominates, and hence
158 Intro|          diseased from the effects of fire is in a continual fever;
159 Intro|         observation of the effects of fire and water on the earth’s
160 Intro|              the destructive force of fire, the seeming regularity
161 Intro|            are put into the refiner’s fire, and the dross and other
162 Intro|          brighter than any Promethean fire (Phil.), which co-existing
163 Intro|                consisting at first of fire and earth, and afterwards
164 Intro|              of two surfaces. Between fire and earth, the two extremes,
165 Intro|         supposed to be four in number—fire, air, earth, and water.
166 Intro|          earth was composed of cubes, fire of regular pyramids, air
167 Intro|           particles of air and one of fire. So because an octahedron
168 Intro|        resolved into two particles of fire.~The transformation is effected
169 Intro|             if rarer. This is true of fire, air, and water, which,
170 Intro|             interchangeable elements, fire, the rarest, can only become
171 Intro|              seem to be the effect of fire upon air, water, and earth,
172 Intro|         masses of similar substances; fire to fire, air to air, water
173 Intro|           similar substances; fire to fire, air to air, water to water,
174 Intro|           figures: (3) three of them, fire, air, and water, admit of
175 Intro|               to us that a network of fire and air envelopes the greater
176 Intro|              speaks of a ‘fountain of fire which we compare to the
177 Intro|            the body. The ‘fountain of fire’ or heat is also in a figure
178 Intro|              conversely. The internal fire is in either case the propelling
179 Intro|              the body to the place of fire; while the impossibility
180 Intro|              It is this which enables fire and air to permeate the
181 Intro|            the action of the internal fire, which in the process of
182 Intro|               minces the food. As the fire returns to its place, it
183 Intro|               the body—the network of fire and air is spoken of as
184 Intro|               and fro; the network of fire and air irrigates the veins.
185 Intro|              light. A sudden flash of fire at once elicits light and
186 Intro|           around the sun or a central fire; (4) that the beginnings
187 Intro|               places, and he imagined fire or the exterior aether to
188 Intro|              seemed to go upwards and fire to pierce through air—when
189 Intro|             all he places the central fire, around which they are moving—
190 Text |              about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser
191 Text |             visible where there is no fire, or tangible which has no
192 Text |            the universe to consist of fire and earth. But two things
193 Text |               air in the mean between fire and earth, and made them
194 Text |               far as was possible (as fire is to air so is air to water,
195 Text |              the world out of all the fire and all the water and all
196 Text |          eight courses, God lighted a fire, which we now call the sun,
197 Text |               the greater part out of fire, that they might be the
198 Text |          later accretions, made up of fire and air and water and earth,
199 Text |             they borrowed portions of fire, and earth, and water, and
200 Text |          collision with some external fire, or with the solid earth
201 Text |            was as follows: So much of fire as would not burn, but gave
202 Text |          every-day life; and the pure fire which is within us and related
203 Text |              the external and kindred fire departs, then the stream
204 Text |              which is now deprived of fire: and so the eye no longer
205 Text |             they keep in the internal fire; and the power of the fire
206 Text |            fire; and the power of the fire diffuses and equalizes the
207 Text |             necessity arise, when the fire from the face coalesces
208 Text |               face coalesces with the fire from the eye on the bright
209 Text |               invisible soul, whereas fire and water, and earth and
210 Text |           must consider the nature of fire, and water, and air, and
211 Text |           generation, but we speak of fire and the rest of them, whatever
212 Text |            raise questions concerning fire and the other elements,
213 Text |              called water rather than fire, and which should be called
214 Text |                when inflamed, becomes fire; and again fire, when condensed
215 Text |               becomes fire; and again fire, when condensed and extinguished,
216 Text |            changing, as, for example, fire, we must not call ‘this’
217 Text |                that should be called ‘fire’ which is of such a nature
218 Text |              termed earth, or air, or fire, or water, or any of their
219 Text | considerations, we may truly say that fire is that part of her nature
220 Text |               there any self-existent fire? and do all those things
221 Text |              by water and inflamed by fire, and receiving the forms
222 Text |              began to get into order, fire and water and earth and
223 Text |           then, as is evident to all, fire and earth and water and
224 Text |              the original elements of fire and the other bodies; but
225 Text |              true origin of earth and fire and of the proportionate
226 Text |               triangles, out of which fire and the other elements have
227 Text |              most moveable of them to fire; and to air that which is
228 Text |           assign the smallest body to fire, and the greatest to water,
229 Text |            again, the acutest body to fire, and the next in acuteness
230 Text |          original element and seed of fire; and let us assign the element
231 Text |              earth, when meeting with fire and dissolved by its sharpness,
232 Text |         dissolution take place in the fire itself or perhaps in some
233 Text |            But water, when divided by fire or by air, on re-forming,
234 Text |       re-forming, may become one part fire and two parts air; and a
235 Text |            air divided becomes two of fire. Again, when a small body
236 Text |           Again, when a small body of fire is contained in a larger
237 Text |              both are moving, and the fire struggling is overcome and
238 Text |               up, then two volumes of fire form one volume of air;
239 Text |          elements is fastened upon by fire, and is cut by the sharpness
240 Text |          sides, it coalesces with the fire, and then ceases to be cut
241 Text |            the conquering nature, and fire becomes air and air water.
242 Text |           left void. Wherefore, also, fire above all things penetrates
243 Text |             there are divers kinds of fire. There are, for example,
244 Text |               thirdly, the remains of fire, which are seen in red-hot
245 Text |              its uniformity. But when fire gets in and dissolves the
246 Text |              flowing. Again, when the fire goes out of the fusile substance,
247 Text |             which was occupied by the fire, and unites it with itself.
248 Text |              with itself, because the fire which was the author of
249 Text |             and this departure of the fire is called cooling, and the
250 Text |           Water which is mingled with fire, so much as is fine and
251 Text |            earth, when separated from fire and air and isolated, becomes
252 Text |              is suddenly drawn out by fire, a more brittle substance
253 Text |               which has been fused by fire becomes, when cool, a certain
254 Text |              soluble by water, but by fire only, and for this reason:—
255 Text |              for this reason:—Neither fire nor air melt masses of earth;
256 Text |          consolidated, by nothing but fire; for this is the only body
257 Text |               strong, is dissolved by fire only—when weaker, then either
258 Text |         weaker, then either by air or fire—the former entering the
259 Text |         strongly condensed, then only fire can dissolve it. As to bodies
260 Text |     undissolved; but the particles of fire, entering into the interstices
261 Text |               water does to earth and fire to air (The text seems to
262 Text |           what we mean by saying that fire is hot; and about this we
263 Text |                We all of us feel that fire is sharp; and we may further
264 Text |              this makes the action of fire violent and sharp, so that
265 Text |           that the original figure of fire (i.e. the pyramid), more
266 Text |             is the appointed place of fire, and where there is the
267 Text |            there is the great mass of fire to which fiery bodies gather—
268 Text |              to abstract particles of fire and put them in scales and
269 Text |             balance, were to draw the fire by force towards the uncongenial
270 Text |           them the greatest amount of fire and air. Now we must conceive
271 Text |                and too wide to detain fire and air; and for this reason
272 Text |         motion of a different sort of fire which strikes and dilates
273 Text |        eliciting from them a union of fire and water which we call
274 Text |              being itself an opposite fire which comes to them from
275 Text |          opposite direction—the inner fire flashes forth like lightning,
276 Text |              There is another sort of fire which is intermediate, and
277 Text |            flashing; and in this, the fire mingling with the ray of
278 Text |               at all—as, for example, fire, water, and the rest of
279 Text |              of passion was caused by fire, formed and implanted as
280 Text |           their perfection to produce fire and water, and air and earth—
281 Text |             after that he put it into fire and then into water, and
282 Text |             water, and once more into fire and again into water—in
283 Text |              things, mixed earth with fire and water and blended them;
284 Text |          power pierced all round with fire, and out of the punctures
285 Text |             of necessity consisted of fire and breath, and it therefore
286 Text |            lesser. Now of all natures fire has the smallest parts,
287 Text |            but it cannot hold air and fire, because the particles of
288 Text |         weaving together a network of fire and air like a weel, having
289 Text |        interior of the net he made of fire, but the lesser weels and
290 Text |             the body, and the rays of fire which are bound fast within
291 Text |             going in and out, and the fire, which is fast bound within,
292 Text |               an internal fountain of fire, which we compare to the
293 Text |             creel, being woven all of fire and extended through the
294 Text |           driven round falls into the fire and becomes warm, and that
295 Text |           towards its native element, fire, pushes round the air at
296 Text |        discussion originated. For the fire cuts the food and following
297 Text |              breath surges up within, fire and breath rising together
298 Text |              by the cutting action of fire and by the impression which
299 Text |               is compacted, earth and fire and water and air, and the
300 Text |            are more kinds than one of fire and of the other elements—
301 Text |            flesh is decomposed by the fire which surrounds the internal
302 Text |               disordered by excess of fire, continuous heat and fever
303 Text |          sluggish element than either fire or air, then the fever is