Dialogue

 1  Meno|       square of the diagonal is double the square of the side—that
 2  Meno|    which forms the side of that double square: this is two feet—
 3  Meno|   Clearly, Socrates, it will be double.~SOCRATES: Do you observe,
 4  Meno|      that because the square is double, the line is double.~MENO:
 5  Meno|   square is double, the line is double.~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: Observe
 6  Meno|       boy, do you assert that a double space comes from a double
 7  Meno|       double space comes from a double line? Remember that I am
 8  Meno|    whether you still say that a double square comes from double
 9  Meno|        double square comes from double line?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES:
10  Meno| SOCRATES: And four times is not double?~BOY: No, indeed.~SOCRATES:
11  Meno|         SOCRATES: Therefore the double line, boy, has given a space,
12  Meno|   SOCRATES: And how much is the double of four?~BOY: Eight.~SOCRATES:
13  Meno|        again and again that the double space should have a double
14  Meno|      double space should have a double side.~MENO: True.~SOCRATES:
15  Meno|     prepared to affirm that the double space is the square of the