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PROCLUS 531<br />

viated form usual with ancient writers. Now in the second<br />

book <strong>of</strong> the <strong>history</strong> <strong>of</strong> geometry he writes as follows '} In<br />

like manner Eutocius speaks <strong>of</strong> the paralogisms handed down<br />

in connexion with the attempts <strong>of</strong> Hippocrates and Antiphon<br />

to square the circle, 'with which I imagine that all persons<br />

are accurately acquainted who have examined {kTrz

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