Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 126d

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[126d] as to which is the longer, a span or a cubit? Is it not mensuration?

Alcibiades
Of course.

Socrates
And it makes both individuals and states agree with each other?

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
And what about the balance? Is it not the same here too?

Alcibiades
It is.

Socrates
Then what is that agreement of which you speak, and about what? And what art secures it? And is it the same in an individual as in a state, when one agrees with oneself and with another?

Alcibiades
Most likely.

Socrates
Well, what is it? Do not flag in your answers,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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