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showing their rims as circles from
above and forming the continuous back of a single whorl about the shaft,
which was driven home through the middle of the eighth. Now the first and
outmost whorl had the broadest circular rim, that of the sixth was second,
and third was that of the fourth, and fourth was that of the eighth, fifth
that of the seventh, sixth that of the fifth, seventh that of the third,
eighth that of the second; and that of the greatest was spangled, that of
the seventh brightest, that of the eighth
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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