Pythagoras: His Life and Teaching, a Compendium of Classical Sources (21 page)

leading to the
end†;
⁵⁴⁰
because by it all are led to the end.
⁵⁴¹

CHAPTER 12

T
HE
O
GDOAD

T
he Ogdoad, they said, was the first cube, and the only number evenly even under ten.
⁵⁴²

The Names of it are these:

Panarmonia
,
⁵⁴³
because of its excellent convenience.
⁵⁴⁴

Cadmaea, Mother, Rhea
,
[“making weak”],†
Cibele, Dindymens
,
[“guardian of the city”],†
Love, Friendship, Council, Prudence, Orcia, Themis, Law
,
[“untimely born”],†
Euterpe
the Muse,
[“stability”],†”
[“placing in position”],†
⁵⁴⁵
Neptune
.
⁵⁴⁶

Justice
, because it is first resolved into numbers, especially equal.
⁵⁴⁷

CHAPTER 13

T
HE
E
NNEAD

T
he Ennead is the first square of an odd number. Its names are these:

Ocean, Horizon
, because number has nothing beyond it, but it revolves all within it.
⁵⁴⁸

Prometheus
, because it suffers no number to exceed it, and justly being a perfect ternary.
⁵⁴⁹

Concord
,
⁵⁵⁰
Perasia
,
⁵⁵¹
Halius
,
⁵⁵²
because it does not permit the consent of number to be dispersed beyond it, but collects it.
⁵⁵³

[“reconciliation”]† because of the revolution to Monad.
⁵⁵⁴

[“similitude”], because it is the first odd triangle.
⁵⁵⁵

Vulcan
, because to it, as fellow ruler and relation, there is no return.
⁵⁵⁶

Juno
, because the sphere of the Air has the ninth place.
⁵⁵⁷

Sister and Wife to Jupiter
, from conjunction with unity.
⁵⁵⁸

[“far-darting”],† because there is no shooting beyond it.
⁵⁵⁹

Paean, Nysseis, Agyica, Ennalios, Agelia, Tritogegenia, Suada, Curetis, Proserpina, Hyperion, Terpsichore
the Muse.
⁵⁶⁰

[“bringing to the end”],†
[“perfection”], because nine months complete the infant.