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The Number of Plato - The Nuptial Number of Plato: its Solution and Significance: by James Adam, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. London: C. J. Clay and Sons. 1891. 2s. 6d. net.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009
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page 153 note 1 At this point there seems to me to be some flaw in Mr. Adam's exposition (p. 21). He takes τοσαυ-τκις to stand for ‘36 times.’ On this supposition the words mean ‘a square number, viz. 36 times a hundred.’ This gives 3600, which is a square, but not the square intended (36002). After the words ἴκατν τοσαυτκις we expect the whole number, not the side of which it is a square. Does Mr. Adam take as an epexegesis of the word alone, so as to be = ‘so many (viz. 36) hundreds of times’?
It would be easy to illustrate the use of and to stand for a numeral or adjective which it would be clumsy in point of style or otherwise undesirable to repeat: e.g. Rep. 615 B . So in the description of tragedy as .