The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|              world from their earliest years had heard that he was a
  2 Intro|              by depriving him of a few years of life. Perhaps he could
  3 Intro|        Anaxagoras had been dead thirty years, and was beyond the reach
  4 Text |             For I am more than seventy years of age, and appearing now
  5 Text |             falsely to you during many years; and I am more afraid of
  6 Text |               of them during all these years, and have been doing yours,
  7 Text |                have survived all these years, if I had led a public life,
  8 Text |                 One who has reached my years, and who has a name for
  9 Text |               For I am far advanced in years, as you may perceive, and


Charmides
    Part
 10 Ded  |                Oxford who during fifty years have been the best of friends
 11 PreS |            glory to have lived so many years in the companionship of
 12 PreS |            grown older in two thousand years, and has enlarged its stock
 13 PreS |              an interval of a thousand years, yet they seem to recur
 14 PreS |       extending over a great number of years.~The external probability
 15 PreS |            been more than six or seven years of age— also foolish allusions,


Cratylus
    Part
 16 Intro|             air, fire, water, seasons, years?’ Very good: and which shall
 17 Intro|             twenty, a hundred thousand years ago, has passed away and
 18 Intro|                It is more than sixteen years since the preceding remarks
 19 Intro|               it which prevailed fifty years ago; partly also because
 20 Intro|             and void.’ During how many years or hundreds or thousands
 21 Intro|               hundreds or thousands of years the imitative or half-articulate
 22 Intro|               perhaps for thousands of years with a religious accuracy,


Critias
    Part
 23 Intro|                speak had occurred 9000 years ago. One of the combatants
 24 Text |                thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since
 25 Text |               during the nine thousand years, for that is the number
 26 Text |              for that is the number of years which have elapsed since


Crito
    Part
 27 Intro|                lived there for seventy years more constantly than any
 28 Text |             after you have had seventy years to think of them, during


Euthydemus
    Part
 29 Intro|              old man; and his equal in years, Crito, the father of Critobulus,
 30 Text |              have been living for many years past in these regions. As


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 31 Pre  |                 during the last twenty years of Plato’s life. Nor must
 32 Pre  |             extending over above fifty years, in an age of great intellectual
 33 Intro|                Alcibiades about twenty years old during the life of his
 34 Text |          having spoken to you for many years, when the rest of the world
 35 Text |                knew.~SOCRATES: And two years ago, and three years ago,
 36 Text |               two years ago, and three years ago, and four years ago,
 37 Text |              three years ago, and four years ago, you knew all the same?~
 38 Text |           SOCRATES: And more than four years ago you were a child—were
 39 Text |              the young prince is seven years old he is put upon a horse
 40 Text |               hunting. And at fourteen years of age he is handed over
 41 Text |           attempt is not as yet twenty years old, and is wholly uneducated,


Gorgias
    Part
 42 Intro|           rhetorician, now advanced in years, who goes from city to city
 43 Intro|                really died twenty-four years previously (429 B.C.) and
 44 Intro|                is continued in maturer years by observation and experience.
 45 Intro|               consistently during many years will at last be executed.
 46 Text |               and I may add, that many years have elapsed since any one
 47 Text |              brother, a child of seven years old, who was the legitimate
 48 Text |            when he is more advanced in years, the thing becomes ridiculous,
 49 Text |                natural to his childish years. But when I hear some small
 50 Text |              he to go, both in maturer years and in youth? For be assured
 51 Text |             not hear his voice for ten years? and they did just the same
 52 Text |        entertainers; but when in after years the unhealthy surfeit brings


Laches
    Part
 53 Intro|         Socrates was more than seventy years of age at his trial in 399 (


Laws
    Book
 54 1    |                ruler or to an equal in years when no young man is present.~
 55 1    |                 and came to Athens ten years before the Persian war,
 56 1    |               and he said that for ten years they would not come, and
 57 2    |                 even when declining in years; and we may say that he
 58 2    |            which they had ten thousand years ago;—this is literally true
 59 2    |               are from thirty to sixty years of age, will also sing.
 60 2    |                 or from fifty to sixty years of age, are to dance in
 61 2    |             When a man is advancing in years, he is afraid and reluctant
 62 2    |                until they are eighteen years of age; we will tell them
 63 2    |           length, he has reached forty years, after dinner at a public
 64 2    |               are from thirty to fifty years of age, and may be over
 65 2    |                who are more than sixty years of age, shall suffer a disgrace
 66 3    |            thousand times ten thousand years. And no more than a thousand
 67 3    |               thousand or two thousand years have elapsed since the discoveries
 68 3    |              The Achaeans remained ten years, and overthrew Troy.~Cleinias.
 69 3    |           Athenian. And during the ten years in which the Achaeans were
 70 3    |          prevailed among us. About ten years before the naval engagement
 71 4    |        difficult task, and the work of years. And yet there is nothing
 72 4    |         seasons continuing during many years. Any one who sees all this,
 73 6    |              office longer than twenty years, and shall not be less than
 74 6    |           shall not be less than fifty years of age when he is elected;
 75 6    |               elected when he is sixty years of age, he shall hold office
 76 6    |              shall hold office for ten years only; and upon the same
 77 6    |               laws after he is seventy years of age, if he live so long.~
 78 6    |            must be not less than sixty years of age—the laws shall be
 79 6    |              not less than twenty–five years of age, and not more than
 80 6    |              shall continue during two years. After having had their
 81 6    |            country, while on their two years service, shall have common
 82 6    |            Furthermore, during the two years in which any one is a warden
 83 6    |          should be not less than forty years of age. One director will
 84 6    |             not to be less than thirty years of age. The director and
 85 6    |       sufficient, and he must be fifty years old, and have children lawfully
 86 6    |             shall hold office for five years; and in the sixth year let
 87 6    |         sufficiently determined. A ten years experience of sacrifices
 88 6    |               any one over twenty–five years of age, having seen and
 89 6    |             the age of five–and–thirty years; but let him first hear
 90 6    |               unmarried at thirty–five years of age, let him pay a yearly
 91 6    |            begetting them continue ten years and no longer, during the
 92 6    |         successive archons by whom the years are reckoned. And near to
 93 6    |              be from sixteen to twenty years at the longest—for a man,
 94 6    |             from thirty to thirty–five years; and let a woman hold office
 95 6    |             forty, and a man at thirty years. Let a man go out to war
 96 6    |               war from twenty to sixty years, and for a woman, if there
 97 6    |             forth children up to fifty years of age; and let regard be
 98 7    |              swathe the infant for two years? Suppose that we compel
 99 7    |             and motion in the earliest years of life greatly contributes
100 7    |            spent is no less than three years, and is a very considerable
101 7    |              but if during these three years every possible care were
102 7    |                 Up to the age of three years, whether of boy or girl,
103 7    |               four, five, and even six years the childish nature will
104 7    |          herself. After the age of six years the time has arrived for
105 7    |          judges of not less than fifty years of age, who shall make the
106 7    |               months, and of months in years, which are to be observed,
107 7    |             fair time for a boy of ten years old to spend in letters
108 7    |              spend in letters is three years; the age of thirteen is
109 7    |              at this for another three years, neither more nor less,
110 7    |            ought to learn in the early years of life, and what their
111 7    | accomplishments in the given number of years, they should let alone.
112 7    |            knowledge of music in three years; for opposite principles
113 8    |           place is not less than fifty years of age; nor should he be
114 8    |                 those who are thirteen years of age and upwards until
115 8    |                the months and days and years have been appointed for
116 8    |              he be of less than thirty years of age, shall be struck
117 8    |                who is more than thirty years of age, eat of them on the
118 8    |             not abide more than twenty years from the time at which he
119 8    |           selling. But when the twenty years have expired, he shall take
120 8    |              if in the course of these years he should chance to distinguish
121 8    |               artisans, and of fifteen years of age, let the time of
122 8    |             let them remain for twenty years, and then go where they
123 9    |               son of not less than ten years of age, they shall select
124 9    |              the public prison for two years, and then go free.~Having
125 9    |                his country during five years, according to law. If a
126 9    |                undergo an exile of two years, that he may learn to school
127 9    |                of three instead of two years—his punishment is to be
128 9    |             and be exiled during three years; but when the exile returns
129 9    |                of exile shall be three years. And when he who has committed
130 9    |                who are more than sixty years of age, having children
131 9    |          respect any one who is twenty years older than himself, whether
132 9    |             who, being more than forty years of age, dares to fight with
133 9    |            either by twenty or by more years, in the first place, he
134 9    |             one who is older by twenty years or more, the same law shall
135 9    |      imprisoned during a period of two years; and a metic who disobeys
136 9    |                be imprisoned for three years, unless the court assign
137 10   |              the division of them into years and months, furnish proofs
138 10   |                of the moon, and of the years and months and seasons,
139 10   |                bodies or pestilence in years or seasons of the year,
140 10   |           period of not less than five years. And in the meantime let
141 11   |                of not less than thirty years of age. Or if he be a freeman,
142 11   |             the state more than twenty years, but like other foreigners
143 11   |             not being less than thirty years of age, may with impunity
144 11   |            repeat the offence, for two years; and every time that he
145 11   |               If any orphan arrives at years of discretion, and thinks
146 11   |         guardians, let him within five years of the expiration of the
147 11   |                 and in a period of ten years no one is willing to adopt
148 11   |               in his house stricken in years, let him consider that no
149 11   |                of a mother stricken in years? whom when a man honours,
150 11   |               if they are under thirty years of age, that is to say,
151 11   |            same punishment up to forty years of age. But if, when they
152 11   |             are still more advanced in years, they continue the same
153 11   |              if she be more than forty years of age, and may bring an
154 12   |             who is not less than fifty years of age. And out of the selected
155 12   |             has completed seventy–five years, to whom three shall afterwards
156 12   |         country who is less than forty years of age; and no one shall
157 12   |              be of not less than fifty years of age; he must be a man
158 12   |             when he is more than sixty years of age he shall no longer
159 12   |          during as many out of the ten years of his office as he pleases,
160 12   |               should be at least fifty years of age; he may possibly
161 12   |               as the owner during five years, at the expiration of the
162 12   |             the expiration of the five years the claim shall be barred
163 12   |               the goods shall be three years, or ten years if he has
164 12   |           shall be three years, or ten years if he has them in the country
165 12   |                of not less than thirty years of age, he himself judging


Lysis
    Part
166 Intro|                Lysis he is advanced in years.~The Dialogue consists of
167 Text |               is not any deficiency of years, but a deficiency of knowledge;
168 Text |          although I am now advanced in years, am so far from having made


Menexenus
    Part
169 Pre  |                 during the last twenty years of Plato’s life. Nor must
170 Pre  |             extending over above fifty years, in an age of great intellectual
171 Intro|               an event occurring forty years after the date of the supposed


Meno
    Part
172 Intro|               ergo sum’ more than 2000 years previously. The Eleatic
173 Text |         whereas during more than forty years, Protagoras was corrupting
174 Text |         mistaken, he was about seventy years old at his death, forty


Parmenides
    Part
175 Intro|              the time about sixty-five years old, aged but well-favoured—
176 Intro|             such a task on a man of my years,’ said Parmenides. ‘Then
177 Text |              Zeno, and Parmenides many years ago, Pythodorus having often
178 Text |            time of his visit, about 65 years old, very white with age,
179 Text |           favoured. Zeno was nearly 40 years of age, tall and fair to
180 Text |               to impose on a man of my years.~Then will you, Zeno? said


Phaedo
    Part
181 Intro|             interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of
182 Intro|      conception; far less than a three years’ old child of the whole
183 Intro|                a hundred or a thousand years after death, and ask not
184 Intro|                a hundred or a thousand years ago. Do we imagine that
185 Intro|              deadened after a thousand years? or what is the nature of
186 Intro|                teachers,—for every ten years in this life deserve a hundred
187 Intro|               they were forty or fifty years before, ‘pattering over
188 Intro|                second of a few hundred years. We congratulate ourselves
189 Intro|                a hundred or a thousand years after an offence had been
190 Intro|               that for thirty thousand years they were to be ‘fugitives
191 Intro|              Crito; he is the equal in years of Socrates, and stands
192 Intro|           after more than two thousand years have passed away.~The two
193 Text |          especially if a man live many years. While he is alive the body


Phaedrus
    Part
194 Intro|                heaven. When a thousand years have elapsed the souls meet
195 Intro|                a cycle of ten thousand years before their wings are restored
196 Intro|              literature for a thousand years afterwards. Yet doubtless
197 Intro|             completion of ten thousand years all are to return to the
198 Intro|              the year 436, about seven years before the birth of Plato.
199 Intro|          thirty and Plato twenty-three years of age, and while Socrates
200 Intro|              of twenty or twenty-three years of age. The cosmological
201 Intro|                written at least twenty years after the other. The conclusion
202 Intro|                 or at most two hundred years if we exclude Homer, the
203 Intro|              much more than a thousand years. And from this decline the
204 Intro|              power? Why did a thousand years invent nothing better than
205 Intro|               For more than a thousand years not a single writer of first-rate,
206 Text |               suppose that equality of years inclines them to the same
207 Text |     deteriorates his lot.~Ten thousand years must elapse before the soul
208 Text |        recurring periods of a thousand years; he is distinguished from
209 Text |                wings in three thousand years:—and they who choose this
210 Text |              the end of three thousand years. But the others (The philosopher
211 Text |              end of the first thousand years the good souls and also
212 Text |             would be disgraced, now as years advance, at the appointed
213 Text |                period of nine thousand years, and leave you a fool in


Philebus
    Part
214 Intro|             well-educated child of ten years old already knows the essentials
215 Intro|              add that for two thousand years and more, utility, if not
216 Text |              which orders and arranges years and seasons and months,


Protagoras
    Part
217 Text |               And I have been now many years in the profession—for all
218 Text |              the profession—for all my years when added up are many:
219 Text |       admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to


The Republic
    Book
220 2    |              had not from his earliest years devoted himself to this
221 3    |            draw the soul from earliest years into likeness and sympathy
222 3    |            music should begin in early years; the training in it should
223 5    |               a period of about twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty
224 5    |               woman's life, and thirty years in a man's? ~Which years
225 5    |               years in a man's? ~Which years do you mean to include? ~
226 5    |               woman, I said, at twenty years of age may begin to bear
227 5    |            both in men and women those years are the prime of physical
228 6    |                said, when perfected by years and education, and to these
229 6    |               pursuit of their maturer years, most of them become strange
230 6    |              be suited to their tender years: during this period while
231 7    |               gives the season and the years, and is the guardian of
232 7    |              seasons and of months and years is as essential to the general
233 7    |                whether of two or three years, which passes in this sort
234 7    |               from the class of twenty years old will be promoted to
235 7    |            citizens who are now thirty years of age, every care must
236 7    |                for twice the number of years which were passed in bodily
237 7    |              Would you say six or four years? he asked. ~Say five years,
238 7    |             years? he asked. ~Say five years, I replied; at the end of
239 7    |                lives to last? ~Fifteen years, I answered; and when they
240 7    |                they have reached fifty years of age, then let those who
241 7    |             city who are more than ten years old, and will take possession
242 8    |           disordered in his wits, when years have elapsed, and the heyday
243 9    |               still. ~And now, I said, years will have passed away, and
244 9    |              and nights and months and years. ~Yes, he said, human life
245 10   |             whole period of threescore years and ten is surely but a
246 10   |              journey lasted a thousand years), while those from above
247 10   |                ten times in a thousand years. If, for example, there
248 10   |              Ardiaeus lived a thousand years before the time of Er: he
249 10   |               pilgrimage of a thousand years which we have been describing. ~     >


The Seventh Letter
    Part
250 Text |                 being then about forty years old, Dion was of the same
251 Text |         advantage of somewhat advanced years.~Therefore, I pondered the
252 Text |            rule over these for seventy years, because they had in each
253 Text |           first place be men of mature years, who have children and wives


The Sophist
    Part
254 Intro|             him and of itself.~Of late years the Sophists have found
255 Intro|            which reached to a thousand years because of the god.’ Hence
256 Intro|      undeciphered, unless two thousand years and more afterwards an interpreter
257 Intro|              in the world of a hundred years hence. But all higher minds
258 Intro|           space of one or two thousand years?~Again, we have a difficulty
259 Intro|               us, ‘he lived for thirty years in a single room,’ yet he
260 Text |             and he was far advanced in years. (Compare Parm.)~STRANGER:
261 Text |               their hearers advance in years, and come into closer contact


The Statesman
    Part
262 Intro|            that more than two thousand years later mankind are still
263 Intro|                improved by the hundred years of Hadrian and the Antonines.
264 Text |              during infinite cycles of years, a reverse movement: this
265 Text |               enemies; whence in a few years they and their children


The Symposium
    Part
266 Intro|             Apollodorus, who for three years past has made a daily study
267 Text |             you ignorant that for many years Agathon has not resided
268 Text |                delayed the disease ten years. She was my instructress


Theaetetus
    Part
269 Intro|              man. Allowing nine or ten years for the interval between
270 Intro|            Plato was about thirty-nine years of age. No more definite
271 Intro|            Corinthian war, between the years 390-387. The later date
272 Intro|             disputant, now advanced in years, of the Protagoras and Symposium;
273 Intro|              had degenerated a hundred years later. There is nothing
274 Intro|             supposed. The child of two years old sees the fire once and
275 Intro|           accompanies it. But in later years he sees in the name only
276 Intro|              youth, as they advance in years are prone to acquiesce in
277 Text |                 came upon him in early years, when the tenderness of


Timaeus
    Part
278 Intro|             the olden time, was ninety years old, I being not more than
279 Intro|              our cities. Nine thousand years have elapsed since she founded
280 Intro|               into months and days and years, and also having greater
281 Intro|               a period of six thousand years; he was able to speculate
282 Intro|                truth, for ten thousand years’ (Laws); he was aware that
283 Intro|              of the universe. In a few years the human mind was peopled
284 Intro|            recurrence of days, months, years, the military divisions
285 Intro|             more obtuse with advancing years; and when they finally wear
286 Intro|         question much disputed of late years. Even if all phenomena are
287 Intro|              he confesses in his later years that they are full of obscurity
288 Intro|              show that the legend, 800 years after the time of Plato,
289 Text |              as he said, nearly ninety years of age, and I was about
290 Text |              tried to compute how many years ago the events of which
291 Text |           founded your city a thousand years before ours (Observe that
292 Text |              gives the same date (9000 years ago) for the foundation
293 Text |            sacred registers to be 8000 years old. As touching your citizens
294 Text |         touching your citizens of 9000 years ago, I will briefly inform
295 Text |              and nights and months and years before the heaven was created,
296 Text |             and the revolutions of the years, have created number, and