Dialogue

 1  Meno|       if in one direction the space was of two feet, and in
 2  Meno|      you assert that a double space comes from a double line?
 3  Meno|   four such lines will make a space containing eight feet?~BOY:
 4  Meno| double line, boy, has given a space, not twice, but four times
 5  Meno|    What line would give you a space of eight feet, as this gives
 6  Meno|        Yes.~SOCRATES: And the space of four feet is made from
 7  Meno|  SOCRATES: Good; and is not a space of eight feet twice the
 8  Meno|   Certainly.~SOCRATES: Such a space, then, will be made out
 9  Meno|      feet that way, the whole space will be three times three
10  Meno|     and again that the double space should have a double side.~
11  Meno|     many times larger is this space than this other?~BOY: Four
12  Meno|      lines which contain this space?~BOY: There are.~SOCRATES:
13  Meno|    Look and see how much this space is.~BOY: I do not understand.~
14  Meno|     Twice.~SOCRATES: And this space is of how many feet?~BOY:
15  Meno|     to affirm that the double space is the square of the diagonal?~