Full Idea
The least number, without qualification, is the two. …but in magnitude there is no least number, for every line always gets divided.
Gist of Idea
Two is the least number, but there is no least magnitude, because it is always divisible
Source
Aristotle (Physics [c.337 BCE], 220a27)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Physics Books III and IV', ed/tr. Hussey,Edward [OUP 1983], p.46
A Reaction
Showing the geometrical approach of the Greeks to number. Two is the last number because numbers are for counting, and picking out one thing is not counting.