Probably the numbers 3, 4, 5, 6 of which the three first = the sides of the Pythagorean triangle. The terms will then be 3³, 4³, 5³, which together = 6³ = 216.

Or the first a square which is 100 × 100 = 10,000. The whole number will then be 17,500 = a square of 100, and an oblong of 100 by 75.

Reading προμήκη δέ.

Or, ‘consisting of two numbers squared upon irrational diameters,’ &c. = 100. For other explanations of the passage see Introduction.

Cp. supra, 544 C.

Omitting ἤ τινος.

Reading καὶ ἐτίμα μάλιστα. Εὖ, ἦ δ’ ἐγώ, according to Schneider’s excellent emendation.

Omitting τί μήν; ἔφη.

Or, ‘the philosophical temper of the condemned.’

Herod. i. 55.