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Reading ὧνπερ ἐκεῖνο εἰκόνων.

BOOK VII.

1

Reading παρόντα.

2

In allusion to a game in which two parties fled or pursued according as an oyster-shell which was thrown into the air fell with the dark or light side uppermost.

3

Reading οὖσαν ἐπάνοδον.

4

Meaning either (1) that they integrate the number because they deny the possibility of fractions; or (2) that division is regarded by them as a process of multiplication, for the fractions of one continue to be units.

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