Plato, Cratylus, section 408e

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[408e] ether, air, fire, water, the seasons, and the year?

Socrates
You are imposing a good many tasks upon me; however, if it will give you pleasure, I am willing.

Hermogenes
It will give me pleasure.

Socrates
What, then, do you wish first? Shall we discuss the sun (Ἥλιος), as you mentioned it first?

Hermogenes
By all means.

Socrates
I think it would be clearer

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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