And that which differs in age from some other would be and not merely become. But that is im-less than formerly, from being older will become possible; for they are always becoming both older younger in relation to that other than which it and younger than one another: the one becomes was older?
younger than the others because it was seen to Yes, younger.
be older and prior, and the others become older And if the one becomes younger the others than the one because they came into being later; aforesaid will become older than they were be-and in the same way the others are in the same fore, in relation to the one.
relation to the one, because they were seen to be Certainly.
older, and prior to the one.
Then that which had become younger becomes That is clear.
older relatively to that which previously had be-Inasmuch then, one thing does not become come and was older; it never really is older, but is older or younger than another, in that they al-always becoming, for the one is always growing ways differ from each other by an equal number, on the side of youth and the other on the side of the one cannot become older or younger than age. And in like manner the older is always in the others, nor the others than the one; but inas-process of becoming younger than the younger; much as that which came into being earlier and for as they are always going in opposite directions that which came into being later must continu-they become in ways the opposite to one another, ally differ from each other by a different portion the younger older than the older, and the older
—in this point of view the others must become younger than the younger. They cannot, however, older and younger than the one, and the one than have become; for if they had already become they the others.