Dialogue

 1 Intro|         a Hellene.’ ‘What do you mean?’ he asked. ‘In mind,’ replied
 2 Intro|           replied the priest, ‘I mean to say that you are children;
 3 Intro|    united by a third, which is a mean between them; and had the
 4 Intro|         been a surface only, one mean would have sufficed, but
 5 Intro|          essence, which was in a mean between them, and partook
 6 Intro|          3, 2; the other kind of mean is one which is equidistant
 7 Intro|          twos and threes and the mean terms which connect them,
 8 Intro| unfermented flesh, giving them a mean nature between the two,
 9 Intro|          man.~But what did Plato mean by essence, (Greek), which
10 Intro|          by two middle terms’ or mean proportionals has been much
11 Intro|         9), have always a single mean proportional (e.g. 4 and
12 Intro|          4 and 9 have the single mean 6), whereas the cubes of
13 Intro|         5 cubed) have always two mean proportionals (e.g. 27:45:
14 Intro|          of the existence of one mean proportional between two
15 Intro|       lowest squares; and of two mean proportionals between two
16 Intro|          are compared to the two mean proportionals between two
17 Intro|         Greek) in the Timaeus to mean ‘revolving.’ For the second
18 Timae|         are no better—not that I mean to depreciate them; but
19 Timae|       asked him what he meant. I mean to say, he replied, that
20 Timae|       cube or square, there is a mean, which is to the last term
21 Timae|          it; and again, when the mean is to the first term as
22 Timae|          the last term is to the mean—then the mean becoming first
23 Timae|          is to the mean—then the mean becoming first and last,
24 Timae|        having no depth, a single mean would have sufficed to bind
25 Timae|      always compacted not by one mean but by two, God placed water
26 Timae|      placed water and air in the mean between fire and earth,
27 Timae|          placed accordingly in a mean between the indivisible,
28 Timae|          1, 4/3, 2, in which the mean 4/3 is one-third of 1 more
29 Timae|         other being that kind of mean which exceeds and is exceeded
30 Timae|           27), together with the mean terms and connecting links
31 Timae|      rest of them, whatever they mean, as though men knew their
32 Timae|           let us enquire what we mean by saying that fire is hot;
33 Timae|      must hunt the prey which we mean to take. A body which is
34 Timae|      attempered so as to be in a mean, and gave them a yellow
35 Timae|    adopted by no man of sense: I mean the purgative treatment