Chapter 4

Notes

1. 13

   μονάδα καὶ τὴν ἀόριστον δυάδα. One, or unity, was considered by Pythagoras as the essence of number, and also as God. Two, or the indefinite binary, was the equivalent of evil. So Plutarch, De placit. philosoph., c. 7; from which treatise the above opinions of the various sects are quoted, generally verbatim.

2. 14

   ἀμέτοχα κενοῦ: the void being that in which these bodies move, while they themselves are of a different nature from it.

3. 15

   Or, accord and discord, attraction and repulsion.