Cratylus
    Part
  1 Intro|         earth, aether, air, fire, water, seasons, years?’ Very good:
  2 Intro|  everything is in a flux like the water in a leaky vessel, or that
  3 Intro|        than the separate drops of water with which we quench our
  4 Text |           cannot go into the same water twice.~HERMOGENES: That
  5 Text |         earth, aether, air, fire, water, the seasons, and the year?~
  6 Text |           of pur (fire) and udor (water)?~SOCRATES: I am at a loss
  7 Text |           just as they have udor (water) and kunes (dogs), and many


Critias
    Part
  8 Intro|           abundant supply of cool water in summer and warm in winter;
  9 Intro|        under the earth springs of water hot and cold, and supplied
 10 Intro|         fountains of hot and cold water, and suitable buildings
 11 Intro|          and also for cattle. The water from the baths was carried
 12 Intro|     changes have been effected by water: (8) the indulgence of the
 13 Text |   rainfall, not as now losing the water which flows off the bare
 14 Text |           world, and abundance of water, and in the heaven above
 15 Text |        gave an abundant supply of water for all and of suitable
 16 Text |          two of land and three of water, which he turned as with
 17 Text |        bringing up two springs of water from beneath the earth,
 18 Text |    beneath the earth, one of warm water and the other of cold, and
 19 Text |     raised considerably above the water. Now the largest of the
 20 Text |        next two zones, the one of water, the other of land, were
 21 Text |           cold and another of hot water, in gracious plenty flowing;
 22 Text |           as was suitable. Of the water which ran off they carried
 23 Text |         heaven, and in summer the water which the land supplied


Euthydemus
    Part
 24 Text |          knew that he was in deep water, and therefore, as I wanted
 25 Text |         is rare is valuable; and ‘water,’ which, as Pindar says,


Gorgias
    Part
 26 Intro|           supposed to be carrying water to a vessel, which is full
 27 Text |     miserable, and that they pour water into a vessel which is full


Laws
    Book
 28 2    |          but that he should drink water during all that time, and
 29 5    |      flowing out, there should be water flowing in too; and recollection
 30 6    |         dry places plenty of good water. The fountains of water,
 31 6    |           water. The fountains of water, whether of rivers or of
 32 6    |            they shall conduct the water to the actual temples of
 33 7    |       hunting of creatures in the water, and of creatures in the
 34 7    |        that he do not pollute the water with poisonous juices. And
 35 8    |        course: who likes may draw water from the fountain–head of
 36 8    |        owner; and he may take the water in any direction which he
 37 8    |       deficiency in the supply of water, let him dig down on his
 38 8    |         at this depth he finds no water, let him obtain water from
 39 8    |          no water, let him obtain water from his neighbours, as
 40 8    |          share of his neighbours’ water. If there be heavy rain,
 41 8    |           give the man outlet for water; or, again, if some one
 42 8    |           recklessly lets off the water on his lower neighbour,
 43 8    |           the judges at the time.~Water is the greatest element
 44 8    |        likely happen in regard to water, which must therefore be
 45 8    |        intentionally pollutes the water of another, whether the
 46 8    |           of another, whether the water of a spring, or collected
 47 8    |      found guilty of injuring the water by deleterious substances,
 48 8    |        cistern which contains the water, in such manner as the laws
 49 10   |            They say that fire and water, and earth and air, all
 50 10   |        this way conceive fire and water and earth and air to be
 51 10   |        formed a living element of water out of fire, instead of
 52 12   |          overwhelmed by floods of water; and there are numberless


Parmenides
    Part
 53 Intro|         beings like ourselves, of water, fire, and the like?’ ‘I
 54 Text |         creatures, or of fire and water?~I am often undecided, Parmenides,


Phaedo
    Part
 55 Intro|        the image reflected in the water, or in a glass. (Compare
 56 Intro|          a mere chaos or waste of water and mud and sand, has nothing
 57 Intro|         which streams of fire and water and liquid mud are ever
 58 Intro|           or of light, or air, or water; or of a number or of a
 59 Text |   recourse to air, and ether, and water, and other eccentricities.
 60 Text |        the image reflected in the water, or in some similar medium.
 61 Text |         and sizes, into which the water and the mist and the lower
 62 Text |         was on the surface of the water, and that the sea was the
 63 Text |          puts his head out of the water and sees this world, he
 64 Text |     speaking) filled with air and water have a colour of their own,
 65 Text |        air is used by them as the water and the sea are by us, and
 66 Text | proportion that air is purer than water or the ether than air. Also
 67 Text |       into basins, a vast tide of water, and huge subterranean streams
 68 Text |         the same; they follow the water up and down, hither and
 69 Text |        the wind swinging with the water in and out produces fearful
 70 Text |    regions, and fill them up like water raised by a pump, and then
 71 Text |   Mediterranean Sea, boiling with water and mud; and proceeding
 72 Text |           Pyriphlegethon. And the water of this river too mingles


Phaedrus
    Part
 73 Text |          and cool our feet in the water; this will be the easiest
 74 Text |         brine out of my ears with water from the spring; and I would
 75 Text |         tomb of Midas; So long as water flows and tall trees grow,
 76 Text |           write’ his thoughts ‘in water’ with pen and ink, sowing


Philebus
    Part
 77 Intro|        elements earth, air, fire, water, exist in us, and they exist
 78 Intro|          honey, the other of pure water, out of which to make the
 79 Intro|          about the composition of water. These and a few other simple
 80 Text |      bodies of all animals, fire, water, air, and, as the storm-tossed
 81 Text |      which no wine mingles, is of water unpleasant but healthful;


The Republic
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 82 2    |        Hades, and make them carry water in a sieve; also while they
 83 3    |      reflection of letters in the water, or in a mirror, only when
 84 3    |          amid the many changes of water and also of food, of summer
 85 6    |      second place, reflections in water and in solid, smooth and
 86 6    |        shadows and reflections in water of their own, are converted
 87 7    |          and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves;
 88 7    |         reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in
 89 7    |        his way to knowledge is by water or by land, whether he floats
 90 7    |       weak eyes the images in the water (which are divine), and
 91 10   |         when looked at out of the water, and crooked when in the
 92 10   |           and crooked when in the water; and the concave becomes
 93 10   |           of Unmindfulness, whose water no vessel can hold; of this
 94 10   |        hindered from drinking the water. But in what manner or by


The Seventh Letter
    Part
 95 Text |        course of nature, to fire, water, and all such things, to


The Sophist
    Part
 96 Intro|         be either land animals or water animals, and water animals
 97 Intro|     animals or water animals, and water animals either fly over
 98 Intro|       animals either fly over the water or live in the water. The
 99 Intro|          the water or live in the water. The hunting of the last
100 Intro|    hunters of animals; the one of water, and the other of land animals.
101 Intro|       reply, ‘A reflection in the water, or in a mirror’; and he
102 Intro|       inward; or to the ripple of water which appears and reappears
103 Intro|          when Thales said ‘All is water’ a new era began to dawn
104 Intro|       borne on the surface of the water; another is carried forward
105 Text |         wing and the other in the water?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
106 Text |           animals who live in the water has the general name of
107 Text |          half of this was hunting water animals—of this again, the
108 Text |        the other goes to land and water of another sort—rivers of
109 Text |     images which are reflected in water or in mirrors; also of sculptures,
110 Text |       which things are made—fire, water, and the like—are known


The Statesman
    Part
111 Intro|      these some are cemented with water and earth, and some are
112 Text |         management of land and of water herds.~YOUNG SOCRATES: There
113 Text |            the one the rearing of water, and the other the rearing
114 Text |  accordingly as they were land or water herds, winged and wingless,
115 Text |            some are cemented with water and earth, and others are
116 Text |      moving or resting on land or water, honourable and also dishonourable.


The Symposium
    Part
117 Text |          into the emptier man, as water runs through wool out of
118 Text |         then gargle with a little water; and if it still continues,


Theaetetus
    Part
119 Text |          in a hurry; there is the water of the clepsydra driving
120 Text |     eye-witnesses, while a little water is flowing in the clepsydra?~
121 Text |           lips, as in a mirror or water. Does not explanation appear


Timaeus
    Part
122 Intro|        great agencies of fire and water. The former is symbolized
123 Intro|           when the danger is from water. Now the Nile is our saviour
124 Intro|       Egypt, we are not harmed by water; whereas in other countries,
125 Intro|         other elements of air and water, and arranged them in a
126 Intro|         proportion—~fire:air::air:water, and air:water::water:earth,~
127 Intro|           air::air:water, and air:water::water:earth,~and so put
128 Intro|         air:water, and air:water::water:earth,~and so put together
129 Intro|     elements of fire, air, earth, water, which had engrossed her,
130 Intro|     portions of earth, air, fire, water, hereafter to be returned,
131 Intro|          there existed fire, air, water, earth, which we suppose
132 Intro|         are compelled to speak of water or fire, not as substances,
133 Intro|        earth nor fire nor air nor water, but an invisible and formless
134 Intro|         nature which is inflamed, water that which is moistened,
135 Intro|          generation, moistened by water and inflamed by fire, and
136 Intro|   familiar. Fire, air, earth, and water are bodies and therefore
137 Intro|        air the octahedron, and to water the icosahedron,—according
138 Intro|      through the medium of air or water, is decomposed but not transformed.
139 Intro|   decomposed but not transformed. Water, when divided by fire or
140 Intro|          air condense into one of water. Any element which is fastened
141 Intro|         and other nameless forms. Water, again, is of two kinds,
142 Intro|         the truths of generation.~Water which is mingled with fire
143 Intro|         which is filtered through water passes into stone; the water
144 Intro|      water passes into stone; the water is broken up by the earth
145 Intro|          union with the remaining water, becomes rock. Rock, when
146 Intro|          formed by separating the water,—soda and salt. The strong
147 Intro|     strong compounds of earth and water are not soluble by water,
148 Intro|          water are not soluble by water, but only by fire. Earth
149 Intro|     consolidated, is dissolved by water; when consolidated, by fire
150 Intro|        fire only. The cohesion of water, when strong, is dissolved
151 Intro|            Compounds of earth and water are unaffected by water
152 Intro|           water are unaffected by water while the water occupies
153 Intro|     unaffected by water while the water occupies the interstices
154 Intro|       into the interstices of the water. They are of two kinds,
155 Intro|     others, like wax, having more water in them.~Having considered
156 Intro|           of pure and transparent water, which are called bubbles;
157 Intro|    another, for the simple air or water is without smell. They are
158 Intro|    vapours or mists, thinner than water and thicker than air: and
159 Intro|          them a union of fire and water which we call tears. The
160 Intro|         alternately into fire and water, and thus rendered insoluble
161 Intro|       mingled earth with fire and water and mixed with them a ferment
162 Intro|       visible when collected. The water of tears and perspiration
163 Intro|          fever is quotidian; when water, the fever intermits a day;
164 Intro|        and caused them to respire water instead of the pure element
165 Intro|           the effects of fire and water on the earth’s surface.
166 Intro|            the nutritive power of water, the air which is the breath
167 Intro|  receiving an addition of air and water; because solid bodies, like
168 Intro|         but two elements, air and water, which are compared to the
169 Intro|      number—fire, air, earth, and water. They were at first mixed
170 Intro|           of regular octahedrons, water of regular icosahedrons.
171 Intro|           to Plato, a particle of water when decomposed is supposed
172 Intro|         is true of fire, air, and water, which, being composed of
173 Intro|         only become a denser, and water, the densest, only a rarer:
174 Intro|          effect of fire upon air, water, and earth, and the effect
175 Intro|          earth, and the effect of water upon earth. The particles
176 Intro|         fire to fire, air to air, water to water, earth to earth.
177 Intro|        fire, air to air, water to water, earth to earth. Plato’s
178 Intro|          He does not observe that water has an equal tendency towards
179 Intro|       equal tendency towards both water and earth. So easily did
180 Intro|           of them, fire, air, and water, admit of transformation
181 Intro|          air, though thinner than water, because when there is an
182 Intro|        that since snow is made of water and water is black, snow
183 Intro|         snow is made of water and water is black, snow ought to
184 Intro|           He observed that earth, water, and air had settled down
185 Intro|           pierce through air—when water and earth fell downward,
186 Text |          the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by
187 Text |        the earth with a deluge of water, the survivors in your country
188 Text |          any other time, does the water come down from above on
189 Text |       mean but by two, God placed water and air in the mean between
190 Text |       fire is to air so is air to water, and as air is to water
191 Text |           water, and as air is to water so is water to earth); and
192 Text |          as air is to water so is water to earth); and thus he bound
193 Text |          all the fire and all the water and all the air and all
194 Text |       made up of fire and air and water and earth, and returned
195 Text |           of fire, and earth, and water, and air from the world,
196 Text |  invisible soul, whereas fire and water, and earth and air, are
197 Text |           the nature of fire, and water, and air, and earth, such
198 Text |          of them should be called water rather than fire, and which
199 Text |           what we just now called water, by condensation, I suppose,
200 Text |         compressed, comes flowing water, and from water comes earth
201 Text |           flowing water, and from water comes earth and stones once
202 Text |      nature’; nor let us speak of water as ‘this’; but always as ‘
203 Text |        earth, or air, or fire, or water, or any of their compounds
204 Text |          to time is inflamed, and water that which is moistened,
205 Text |          generation, moistened by water and inflamed by fire, and
206 Text |          get into order, fire and water and earth and air had only
207 Text |           all, fire and earth and water and air are bodies. And
208 Text |     adhere to probability; and to water we assign that one of the
209 Text |         fire, and the greatest to water, and the intermediate in
210 Text |          to air, and the third to water. Of all these elements,
211 Text |          to air, and the third to water. We must imagine all these
212 Text |    perhaps in some mass of air or water, is borne hither and thither,
213 Text |          take any other form. But water, when divided by fire or
214 Text |           a larger body of air or water or earth, and both are moving,
215 Text |        condensed into one part of water. Let us consider the matter
216 Text |          fire becomes air and air water. But if bodies of another
217 Text |      inequality of the triangles. Water, again, admits in the first
218 Text |          and unequal particles of water; and moves itself and is
219 Text |        bright and denser kinds of water, when solidified is called
220 Text |       which follow next in order.~Water which is mingled with fire,
221 Text |   condensation be very great, the water above the earth becomes
222 Text |         are the numerous kinds of water which have been mingled
223 Text |         which is filtered through water passes into stone in the
224 Text |         the following manner:—The water which mixes with the earth
225 Text |           indissoluble union with water becomes rock. The fairer
226 Text |          A like separation of the water which had been copiously
227 Text |           then formed, soluble in water—the one, soda, which is
228 Text |        The compounds of earth and water are not soluble by water,
229 Text |          water are not soluble by water, but by fire only, and for
230 Text |     undissolved; but particles of water, which are larger, force
231 Text |          by force is dissolved by water only; when consolidated,
232 Text |         entrance. The cohesion of water again, when very strong,
233 Text |      bodies composed of earth and water, while the water occupies
234 Text |        earth and water, while the water occupies the vacant interstices
235 Text |           force, the particles of water which approach them from
236 Text |       into the interstices of the water, do to the water what water
237 Text |           of the water, do to the water what water does to earth
238 Text |       water, do to the water what water does to earth and fire to
239 Text |        compound body of earth and water liquefying and becoming
240 Text |         sort of stones, have less water than they have earth; on
241 Text |          and incense have more of water entering into their composition.~
242 Text |        air) are hollow spheres of water; and those of them which
243 Text |         narrow to admit earth and water, and too wide to detain
244 Text |          intermediate state, when water is changing into air and
245 Text |    changing into air and air into water; and all of them are either
246 Text |           passing out of air into water is mist, and that which
247 Text |        that which is passing from water into air is vapour; and
248 Text |           smells are thinner than water and thicker than air. The
249 Text |          them a union of fire and water which we call tears, being
250 Text |        all—as, for example, fire, water, and the rest of the elements.
251 Text |    perfection to produce fire and water, and air and earth—these,
252 Text |           into fire and then into water, and once more into fire
253 Text |          into fire and again into water—in this way by frequent
254 Text |         mixed earth with fire and water and blended them; and making
255 Text |      penetrates through earth and water and air and their compounds,
256 Text |    Moreover, as to the flowing of water, the fall of the thunderbolt,
257 Text |     compacted, earth and fire and water and air, and the unnatural
258 Text |       fever is quotidian; when of water, which is a more sluggish
259 Text |       were the inhabitants of the water: these were made out of