[587d]
if we assume the
identity of the aristocrat and the king.1” “Yes, the third.” “Three
times three, then, by numerical measure is the interval that separates the
tyrant from true pleasure.” “Apparently.”
“The phantom2 of the tyrant's pleasure is then by longitudinal
mensuration a plane number.” “Quite so.”
“But by squaring and cubing it is clear what the interval of this
separation becomes.” “It is clear,” he said,
“to a reckoner.” “Then taking it the other way
about,
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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