Plato, Meno, section 74e

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[74e] including straight equally with round under that term. For that is your statement, is it not?

Meno
It is.

Socrates
And in making it, do you mean to say that round is no more round than straight, or straight no more straight than round?

Meno
No, to be sure, Socrates.

Socrates
What you mean is that the round shape is no more a figure than the straight, or the straight than the round.

Meno
Quite right.

Socrates
Then what can this thing be, which bears the name of figure? Try and tell me. Suppose that, on being asked this question by someone,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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