Γ. Ταῦτα δέ μου διεξιόντος μεταξὺ κατασείσασα τῇ χειρὶ ἡ διδάσκαλος
_ Γ. Τί οὖν ἂν εἴη, φημὶ, τὸ πῦρ, ἢ τὸ χάσμα, ἢ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν εἰρημένων, ἢ μὴ ἃ λέγεται
Γ. Τί οὖν, εἶπον, ἐν τούτοις ἐστὶ τὸ δόγμα
_ Γ. Τί οὖν χρὴ λέγειν, εἶπον, πρὸς τοὺς μικροψύχως ταῖς συμβολαῖς διακειμένους
_ Μ. Τί οὖν, φησὶ, τούτων ἀμνημόνευτον ἐν τοῖς εἰρημένοις ἐστίν
_ Γ. Αὐτὸ, φημὶ, τὸ δόγμα τῆς ἀναστάσεως.
Μ. Καὶ μὴν πολλὰ, φησὶ, τῶν νῦν διεξοδικῶς εἰρημένων, πρὸς τοῦτον τὸν σκοπὸν φέρει.
You seem, I interrupted, in this passing remark to have made an excellent defence of the faith in the Resurrection. By it, I think, the opponents of this doctrine might be gradually led to consider it not as a thing absolutely impossible that the atoms should again coalesce and form the same man as before.
Γ. Καὶ ἐγὼ εἶπον, Ἄριστά μοι δοκεῖς κατὰ τὸ παρὸν συμμεμαχηκέναι τῷ λόγῳ τῆς ἀναστάσεως. Δύνασθαι γὰρ ἂν διὰ τούτων ἠρέμα προσαχθῆναι τοὺς ἀπομαχομένους τῇ πίστει, πρὸς τὸ μὴ οἴεσθαι τῶν ἀδυνάτων εἶναι πάλιν ἀλλήλοις συνελθεῖν τὰ στοιχεῖα, καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν ἀπεργάσασθαι ἄνθρωπον,