Dialogue

 1 Phileb| contemporary Pythagoreans.~There is little in the characters which
 2 Phileb|            to consider the matter a little more deeply, even though
 3 Phileb|         neutral; we may embellish a little by calling them gold, silver,
 4 Phileb|            amount of white paint; a little pure white is fairer than
 5 Phileb|              or of the world?’ This little addition has changed the
 6 Phileb|             language and thought in little rills, which convey them
 7 Phileb|            you must let me make one little remark first about these
 8 Phileb|          let us first agree on some little points.~PROTARCHUS: What
 9 Phileb|           you would explain to me a little more about them, perhaps
10 Phileb|             if you do not object, a little more fully.~PHILEBUS: Take
11 Phileb|            but will you try to be a little plainer?~SOCRATES: Do not
12 Phileb|          which, as we were saying a little while ago, are produced
13 Phileb|     SOCRATES: We were maintaining a little while since, that when desires,
14 Phileb|         suppose that we embellish a little and call the first gold,
15 Phileb|        quite right in saying that a little pure white is whiter and
16 Phileb|         third time I must say, Be a little plainer, Socrates.~SOCRATES:
17 Phileb|            that is doubtful and has little which is certain.~PROTARCHUS:
18 Phileb|           truth, however humble and little useful an art. And as for
19 Phileb|      comparison of white colours, a little whiteness, if that little
20 Phileb|           little whiteness, if that little be only pure, was said to
21 Phileb|              PROTARCHUS: There is a little which yet remains, and I