Dialogue

 1 Repub|             answering twice six, or three times four, or six times
 2 Repub|            times two, or four times three, "for this sort of nonsense
 3 Repub|         they must be paid in one of three modes of payment, money,
 4 Repub|             to know in which of the three classes you would place
 5 Repub|      receive into our State all the three styles, or one only of the
 6 Repub|         tell that a song or ode has three parts-the words, the melody,
 7 Repub|            artificers of lyres with three corners and complex scales,
 8 Repub|            know that there are some three principles of rhythm out
 9 Repub|           able to fight with two or three times their own number? ~
10 Repub|             we might know the other three first, and then the fourth
11 Repub|             I said, we may consider three out of the four virtues
12 Repub|             were saying that if the three were discovered by us, justice
13 Repub|              I said, that there are three distinct classes, any meddling
14 Repub|           by us to be just when the three classes in the State severally
15 Repub|         assume that he has the same three principles in his own soul
16 Repub| question-whether the soul has these three principles or not? ~An easy
17 Repub|        whether these principles are three or one; whether, that is
18 Repub|             latter case, instead of three principles in the soul,
19 Repub|           the State was composed of three classes, traders, auxiliaries,
20 Repub|       individual, and that they are three in number. ~Exactly. ~Must
21 Repub|            consisted in each of the three classes doing the work of
22 Repub|             interest of each of the three parts and of the whole? ~
23 Repub|           he has bound together the three principles within him, which
24 Repub|       strife which arises among the three principles-a meddlesomeness,
25 Repub|            we divided the soul into three parts; and distinguished
26 Repub|          even, and the figures, and three kinds of angles, and the
27 Repub|           meaning clearer: here are three fingers-a little finger,
28 Repub|           period, whether of two or three years, which passes in this
29 Repub|        squared and cubed) obtaining three intervals and four terms
30 Repub|              100); and 100 cubes of three (27 x 100 = 2700 + 4900 +
31 Repub|      divided, as indeed it is, into three classes; for in the first
32 Repub|             been divided by us into three principles, the division
33 Repub|           seems to me that to these three principles three pleasures
34 Repub|           to these three principles three pleasures correspond; also
35 Repub|          pleasures correspond; also three desires and governing powers. ~
36 Repub|             assuming that there are three classes of men-lovers of
37 Repub|             Exactly. ~And there are three kinds of pleasure, which
38 Repub|             Now, if you examine the three classes of men, and ask
39 Repub|             I said, reflect. Of the three individuals, which has the
40 Repub|          wisdom? ~Nay, he said, all three are honored in proportion
41 Repub|           is the pleasantest of the three, and that he of us in whom
42 Repub|             me? ~There appear to be three pleasures, one genuine and
43 Repub|          space of a number which is three times three? ~Manifestly. ~
44 Repub|         number which is three times three? ~Manifestly. ~The shadow,
45 Repub|          now join them, and let the three grow into one. ~That has
46 Repub|        please. Well, then, here are three beds: one existing in nature,
47 Repub|            Yes. ~Beds, then, are of three kinds, and there are three
48 Repub|          three kinds, and there are three artists who superintend
49 Repub|            painter? ~Yes, there are three of them. ~God, whether from
50 Repub|               What? ~That there are three arts which are concerned
51 Repub|              there is another band, three in number, each sitting