Plato, Philebus, section 26c

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[26c] I say, on the contrary, she brought salvation. What do you think, Protarchus?

Protarchus
What you say, Socrates, pleases me greatly.

Socrates
I have spoken of these three classes, you observe.

Protarchus
Yes, I believe I understand; I think you mean that the infinite is one class and the finite is another class among existing things; but what you wish to designate as the third class, I do not comprehend very well.

Socrates
No, because the multitude which springs up in the third class overpowers you and yet the infinite also comprised many classes,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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