Dialogue

 1 Criti|    Carthage and Rome. The small number of the primitive Athenian
 2 Criti|    which is about their present number’ (Crit.), is evidently designed
 3 Criti|         careful to preserve the number of fighting men and women
 4 Criti|      though matched against any number of opponents (cp. Rep.).
 5 Criti| thousand years, for that is the number of years which have elapsed
 6 Criti|       care to preserve the same number of men and women through
 7 Criti|    Moreover, there were a great number of elephants in the island;
 8 Criti|      such was thought to be the number of them by the men of those
 9 Criti|       were celebrated for their number and size and beauty, far
10 Criti|         each way, and the total number of all the lots was sixty
11 Criti|         the odd and to the even number. And when they were gathered