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[53a]

Protarchus
Which shall we select?

Socrates
Let us first, if agreeable to you, consider whiteness.

Protarchus
By all means.

Socrates
How can we have purity in whiteness, and what purity? Is it the greatest and most widespread, or the most unmixed, that in which there is no trace of any other color?

Protarchus
Clearly it is the most unadulterated.

Socrates
Right. Shall we not, then, Protarchus, declare that this, and not the most numerous or the greatest,


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