Dialogue

 1  Meno|         has drawn the imaginary line by which they are divided
 2  Meno|       tell me the length of the line which forms the side of
 3  Meno|        that he knows how long a line is necessary in order to
 4  Meno|       the square is double, the line is double.~MENO: True.~SOCRATES:
 5  Meno|       space comes from a double line? Remember that I am not
 6  Meno|        square comes from double line?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: But
 7  Meno|     SOCRATES: But does not this line become doubled if we add
 8  Meno|  doubled if we add another such line here?~BOY: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
 9  Meno|  SOCRATES: Therefore the double line, boy, has given a space,
10  Meno|        BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: What line would give you a space of
11  Meno|     feet is made from this half line?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: Good;
12  Meno|     then, will be made out of a line greater than this one, and
13  Meno|      now tell me, is not this a line of two feet and that of
14  Meno|         Yes.~SOCRATES: Then the line which forms the side of
15  Meno|      ought to be more than this line of two feet, and less than
16  Meno|        if we add a half to this line of two, that will be the
17  Meno|        of two, that will be the line of three. Here are two and
18  Meno|      eight is not made out of a line of three?~BOY: No.~SOCRATES:
19  Meno|         SOCRATES: But from what line?—tell me exactly; and if
20  Meno|     reckon, try and show me the line.~BOY: Indeed, Socrates,
21  Meno|     SOCRATES: And does not this line, reaching from corner to
22  Meno| SOCRATES: Has not each interior line cut off half of the four
23  Meno|         SOCRATES: And from what line do you get this figure?~
24  Meno|     SOCRATES: That is, from the line which extends from corner
25  Meno|       SOCRATES: And that is the line which the learned call the
26  Meno|       you apply it to the given line, i.e. the diameter of the