Dialogue

 1  Meno|         Athenian statesmen of past times. Socrates replies here,
 2  Meno|          such a question in modern times. But in the age of Socrates
 3  Meno|            is often made in modern times by those who would depreciate
 4  Meno| necessarily different at different times of his life, as new distinctions
 5  Meno|          the Alexandrian and Roman times widens into a lake or sea,
 6  Meno|           first thinkers of modern times: from this alone all other
 7  Meno|           of philosophy; in modern times it would no longer be asked.
 8  Meno|        having been born again many times, and having seen all things
 9  Meno|     SOCRATES: And is not that four times four?~BOY: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
10  Meno|      Certainly.~SOCRATES: And four times is not double?~BOY: No,
11  Meno|            But how much?~BOY: Four times as much.~SOCRATES: Therefore
12  Meno|         space, not twice, but four times as much.~BOY: True.~SOCRATES:
13  Meno|          BOY: True.~SOCRATES: Four times four are sixteen—are they
14  Meno|          whole space will be three times three feet?~BOY: That is
15  Meno|             And how much are three times three feet?~BOY: Nine.~SOCRATES:
16  Meno|             SOCRATES: And how many times larger is this space than
17  Meno|         than this other?~BOY: Four times.~SOCRATES: But it ought
18  Meno|     SOCRATES: And four is how many times two?~BOY: Twice.~SOCRATES:
19  Meno|            of our own and of other times knew how to impart to others