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For that equality which many affect, being often the greatest injustice, God, as much as possible, takes away; and useth that proportion which respects every man's deserts, geometrically defining it according to law and reason. This exposition we applauded; and Tyndares, saying he envied him, desired Autobulus to engage Florus and confute his discourse.

To this Tyndares the Spartan subjoined: It is very fit we should apply that to Plato, He seemed not sprung from mortal man, but God. But, for my part, I am afraid to beget, as well as to be begotten, is repugnant to the incorruptibility of the deity.

Tyndares presently subjoining said: Perhaps, Diogenianus, you imagine that this sentence intimates some curious and difficult speculation, and not that which he hath so often mentioned, when he praiseth geometry as a science that takes off men from sensible objects, and makes them apply themselves to the intelligible and eternal Nature, the contemplation of which is the end of philosophy, as the view of the initiatory mysteries into holy rites.

After Tyndares, Florus, a companion of his, and who always jocosely pretended to be his admirer, said thus: Sir, we are obliged to you for making your discourse not proper to yourself, but common to us all; for you have made it possible to disprove it by demonstrating that geometry is not necessary to the gods, but to us.