<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg024.perseus-eng5" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg024.perseus-eng5:" n="4"><sp><speaker>Pythagoras</speaker><p>In addition to these, counting.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Buyer</speaker><p>I can count now.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Pythagoras</speaker><p>How do you do it?</p></sp><sp><speaker>Buyer</speaker><p>One, two, three, four.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Pythagoras</speaker><p>Look, now; what you deem four is really ten, and a perfect triangle, and what we swear by.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Buyer</speaker><p>Hear me swear a mighty oath: by Four, I never heard diviner or more holy words.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Pythagoras</speaker><p>And after that, stranger, you will have knowledge concerning earth and air and water and fire-the mass of each, and what form it has, and what motion by consequence.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Buyer</speaker><p>Then has fire form, or air, or water?</p></sp><sp><speaker>Pythagoras</speaker><p>Very clear forms, for the formless and shapeless is immovable; and besides these things you will know that God is number and mind and harmony.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Buyer</speaker><p>This is startling!</p></sp></div><div type="textpart" subtype="section" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg024.perseus-eng5:" n="5"><sp><speaker>Pythagoras</speaker><p>Beyond what I have already said, you will know that you yourself, who seem to be a unit, are one person in appearance and another in reality.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Buyer</speaker><p>What do you say? Am I somebody else and not this person now talking to you? <pb n="p.62"/></p></sp><sp><speaker>Pythagoras</speaker><p>Now you are he, but formerly you appeared in another body and with another name; and in time you will change again into another.</p></sp><sp><speaker>Buyer</speaker><p>You mean this: that I shall be immortal, changing into one form after another? But that is enough on this subject.</p></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>