Taylor - Theoretic Arithmetic.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

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In the last place, they called the monad multinominal, as we
are informed by Hesychius; and this with the greatest propriety,
because the ineflable one, of which the monad is the
image, is, as we have observed, all things prior to all.
CHAPTER IV
On the duad.
THE duad was called by the Pythagoreans, as we learn from
Nicomachus, "audacity, matter, the cause of dissimilitude, and
the interval between multitude and the monad. This alone
produces equality from composition and mixture, on which
account also it is equal. But it is likewise unequal, defect, and
abundance, and is alone unfigured, indefinite, and infinite. It
is also alone the principle and cause of the even, yet is neither
evenly-even, nor unevenly-even, nor evenly-odd. But many of
these things are proximate to the physical peculiarity of the
duad. It is likewise the fountain of all symphony, and among
the Muses is Erato. It is also harmony, patience, and a root,
though not in a certain respect in energy. It is power too, the
feet of Ida abounding with fountains, a summit and Phanes.