Socrates holds an argument about what happens to the soul after the body dies. He feels that when the human body dies, the soul continues to live throughout an infinite number of bodies, therefore making it immortal. Cebes doesn't agree with Socrates' argument and has a few objections of his own.
             Cebes agrees with Socrates in the sense that the soul has superiority over the body. The aspect of this statement the Cebes doesn't agree with is that because the soul is superior, it is immortal. Cebes feels that the soul has to eventually die.
             Before Cebes starts off with his objection, he makes a comparison of the soul and body to a weaver and a cloak to bring about a stronger argument for his objection. In this comparison, the soul is like the weaver and the body is like the cloak. The point that Cebes is trying to make is that when the weaver dies, just because the cloak that the weaver use to wear is still around, doesn't mean that the man (weaver) will then still be alive. He feels that this proves his point that just because the body of a dead person is still in its physical form, it doesn't mean that the soul is going to be around as well.
             With the comparison that Cebes made, he objects to the argument that Socrates makes on how the soul is immortal. Cebes feels that the soul is going to eventually die in one of the bodies it lives in, because like the comparison of the body/soul to cloak/weaver, the weaver is eventually going to die in one of the cloaks that he owns. The certain cloak just depends on what cloak he was wearing on that specific day that he dies. With this said, Cebes then feels that the soul, being like the weaver, has to eventually die in one of the bodies it is in. This is why Cebes feels that the soul can't be immortal.
             When Socrates says that the soul is superior, he is then saying that the weaver, as being compared to the soul, is also superior to the cloak. With the cloak still around and being the inf...