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 512 A. E. TAYLOR : NOTE IN REPLY TO MR. A. W. BENN. that my tentative explanation has at least the merit of connecting the passage of Plato with the known topics of Zeno's work against the Pythagoreans, and I may also, I think, add in defence of it, that, if it is right, it at least gives a definite meaning to what the editors of Plato in general have been content to leave unintelligible. I do not say my interpretation is proved to be correct, but I do contend that it is in keeping with all we know of Zeno from Aristotle and Simplicius, and turns on a point which was bound to arise in connexion with the problem of incommensurables. If it is to be proved wrong, the proof will have to be furnished not from Moliere but by the production of a simpler interpretation. In conclusion I would only say further that I sincerely deprecate the suggestion of patronage conveyed by Mr. Benn's reference to- "poor Maguire," which I trust was unintentional. A. E. TAYLOR.