Before revision: Description upright=1.3|The Divided Line – (AC) is generally taken as representing the visible world and (CE) as representing the intelligible world.
After revision: In The Republic (509d–510a), Socrates describes the divided line to Glaucon this way:Description upright=1.3|The Divided Line – (AC) is generally taken as representing the visible world and (CE) as representing the intelligible world.