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Contents: Hippias MajorHippias MinorIonMenexenusCleitophonTimaeusCritiasMinosEpinomis, or Nocturnal Council |
Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis
Timaeus: Timaeus
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[53a] but fly off and settle elsewhere if they are spongy and light. So it was also with the Four Kinds when shaken by the Recipient: her motion, like an instrument which causes shaking, was separating farthest from one another the dissimilar, and pushing most closely together the similar; wherefore also these Kinds occupied different places even before that the Universe was organized and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these things were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken,
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Cross references from J. Adam, A. M. Adam, Commentary on Plato, Protagoras:
XI, 320D [CHAPTER XI]
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This text is based on the following book(s): Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925. OCLC: 21777623, 15624657, 4601236, 4226954 ISBN: 0674991850, 0674992571, 0674992210, 0674991826
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