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| Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 70 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| T. Maccius Plautus, Rudens, or The Fisherman's Rope (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Pindar, Pythian 4 (ed. Steven J. Willett) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Aristotle, Politics | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Plato, Theaetetus, section 143d (search)
SocratesIf I cared more for Cyrene and its affairs, Theodorus, I should ask you about things there and about the people, whether any of the young men there are devoting themselves to geometry or any other form of philosophy; but as it is, since I care less for those people than for the people here, I am more eager to know which of our own young men are likely to gain reputation. These are the things I myself investigate, so far as I can, and about which I question those others with whom I see that the young men like to associate. Now a great many of them come to you, and rightly,
TheodorusWhy, what do you mean, Socrates?SocratesWhen you rated sophist, statesman, and philosopher at the same value, though they are farther apart in worth than your mathematical proportion can express.TheodorusBy Ammon, our special divinity,Theodorus was from Cyrene, not far from the oasis of Ammon. that is a good hit, Socrates; evidently you havenÕt forgotten your mathematics, and you are quite right in, finding fault with my bad arithmetic. I will get even with you at some other time; but now, Stranger, I turn to you. Do not grow tired of being kind to us, but go on and tell us about the statesman or the philosopher,