Pensando qual principio ond’ egli indige.
—Dante.
Paradise, canto 33, lines 122-125.
[As doth the expert geometer appear
Who seeks to square the circle, and whose skill
Finds not the law with which his course to steer.[12]]
Quoted in Frankland’s Story of Euclid (London, 1902), p. 101.
In Mathematicks he was greater