Plato, Lesser Hippias, section 366c

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[366c] I am not speaking of one who is prevented by disease or that sort of thing, but as I might say of you that you have power to write my name when you wish or do you not say that a man has power who is in such a condition?

Hippias
Yes, I do.

Socrates
Tell me, then, Hippias, are you not skillful in arithmetical calculations?

Hippias
Most assuredly, Socrates.

Socrates
Then if some one were to ask you what the product of three times seven hundred is, you could, if you wished,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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