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with one another, whereof
a basal four-thirds wedded to the pempad yields two harmonies at the third
augmentation, the one the product of equal factors taken one hundred times,
the other of equal length one way but oblong,—one dimension of a
hundred numbers determined by the rational diameters of the pempad lacking
one in each case, or of the irrational1 lacking two; the other dimension of a hundred
cubes of the triad. And this entire geometrical number is determinative of
this thing, of better and inferior births.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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