Οἴονταί τινες, βασιλεῦ Γέλων, τοῦ ψάμμου τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἄπειρον εἶμεν τῷ πλήθει…. Ἐντί τινες δέ, οἳ αὐτὸν ἄπειρον μὲν εἶμεν οὐχ ὑπολαμβάνοντι, μηδένα μέντοι ταλικοῦτον κατωνομασμένον ὑπάρχειν ἀριθμόν, ὅστις ὑπερβάλλει τὸ πλῆθος αὐτοῦ–Archimedes' Arenarius, tr. Mendell: “Some people believe, King Gelon, that the number of sand is infinite in multitude….There are some who do not suppose that it is infinite, and yet that there is no number that has been named which is so large as to exceed its multitude.”