Second, the form of each human was wholly round, with its back and sides in a circle, and it used to have four hands, and legs equal in number to the hands, |190A| and two faces, alike in every way, on a cylindrical neck. There was one head for both faces, which were placed opposite each other, and four ears and two private parts, and all else, as one might imagine, in accord with these. And just as now, it traveled upright in whatever direction it might wish. And whenever they would set out to run fast, just as tumblers tumble in a circle with their legs stuck straight out, they too, by
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Aristophanes, thank you for enlightening us
