But that is impossible; for they are always becoming both
older and younger than one another: the one becomes younger than the
others because it was seen to be older and prior, and the others
become older than the one because they came into being later; and in
the same way the others are in the same relation to the one, because
they were seen to be older, and prior to the one.
That is clear.
Inasmuch then, one thing does not become older or younger than
another, in that they always differ from each other by an equal
number, the one cannot become older or younger than the others, nor
the other than the one; but inasmuch as that which came into being
earlier and that which came into being later must continually differ
from each other by a different portion-in this point of view the
others must become older and younger than the one, and the one than
the others.
Certainly.
For all these reasons, then, the one is and becomes older and
younger than itself and the others, and neither is nor becomes older
or younger than itself or the others.
Certainly.
But since the one partakes of time, and partakes of becoming older
and younger, must it not also partake of the past, the present, and
the future?
Of course it must.
Then the one was and is and will be, and was becoming and is
becoming and will become?
Certainly.
And there is and was and will be something which is in relation to
it and belongs to it?
True.
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