sentences:  For comparison, Socrates refers to a bad storm which recently took place, and which was immediately followed by a sudden calm; such a sudden transformation is all at once amazing, real, and beyond the power of humans to effect.He also points out the vast differences in strength and intelligence between adults and children, with the latter often being incapable of comprehending what adults can do.Both analogies taken together support the possibility that the gods may indeed have the ability to transform humans into birds, which process is simply not understood by humans, as opposed to being impossible.