Dialogue

 1  Meno|   figures. The theorem that the square of the diagonal is double
 2  Meno|      the diagonal is double the square of the side—that famous
 3  Meno|         a figure like this is a square?~BOY: I do.~SOCRATES: And
 4  Meno|   SOCRATES: And you know that a square figure has these four lines
 5  Meno|       through the middle of the square are also equal?~BOY: Yes.~
 6  Meno|    equal?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: A square may be of any size?~BOY:
 7  Meno|         are.~SOCRATES: Then the square is of twice two feet?~BOY:
 8  Meno|      might there not be another square twice as large as this,
 9  Meno|         the side of that double square: this is two feet—what will
10  Meno|       produce a figure of eight square feet; does he not?~MENO:
11  Meno|        guesses that because the square is double, the line is double.~
12  Meno|         still say that a double square comes from double line?~
13  Meno|     Tell me, boy, is not this a square of four feet which I have
14  Meno| SOCRATES: And now I add another square equal to the former one?~
15  Meno|         the double space is the square of the diagonal?~BOY: Certainly,