Dialogue

 1  Meno| Protagoras, that the virtues are four, but they are also in some
 2  Meno|          square figure has these four lines equal?~BOY: Certainly.~
 3  Meno|          count and tell me.~BOY: Four, Socrates.~SOCRATES: And
 4  Meno|         Certainly.~SOCRATES: And four such lines will make a space
 5  Meno|          And are there not these four divisions in the figure,
 6  Meno|        is equal to the figure of four feet?~BOY: True.~SOCRATES:
 7  Meno|        SOCRATES: And is not that four times four?~BOY: Certainly.~
 8  Meno|       And is not that four times four?~BOY: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
 9  Meno|         Certainly.~SOCRATES: And four times is not double?~BOY:
10  Meno|     SOCRATES: But how much?~BOY: Four times as much.~SOCRATES:
11  Meno|          a space, not twice, but four times as much.~BOY: True.~
12  Meno|       much.~BOY: True.~SOCRATES: Four times four are sixteen—are
13  Meno|       True.~SOCRATES: Four times four are sixteen—are they not?~
14  Meno|       SOCRATES: And the space of four feet is made from this half
15  Meno|          of two feet and that of four?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: Then
16  Meno|       and less than the other of four feet?~BOY: It ought.~SOCRATES:
17  Meno|        how much is the double of four?~BOY: Eight.~SOCRATES: Then
18  Meno|          is not this a square of four feet which I have drawn?~
19  Meno|  SOCRATES: Here, then, there are four equal spaces?~BOY: Yes.~
20  Meno|      space than this other?~BOY: Four times.~SOCRATES: But it
21  Meno|           And are there not here four equal lines which contain
22  Meno|         line cut off half of the four spaces?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES:
23  Meno|      there in this section?~BOY: Four.~SOCRATES: And how many
24  Meno|          BOY: Two.~SOCRATES: And four is how many times two?~BOY:
25  Meno|          corner of the figure of four feet?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: