Taylor - Theoretic Arithmetic.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

had these appellations in consequence of consisting of three
triads; the triad harmonizing both with the Curetes and Proserpine.
From the same author also we learn that it was called
Hyperion, from having proceeded into a magnitude transcending
the other numbers (within the decad) ; and Terpsichore
from turning, and causing the retrogression and convergency
of productive principles to circulate like a dance. (ax0
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This author likewise informs us, that it was called Telesphorus,
or bringing to an end, because it gives perfection and
consummation to the offspring that are produced in nine
months; and also that it was denominated perfect because it
is generated from the triad which is perfect. The ennead
likewise may be said to be the perfector as we learn from
Proclus in Tim. p. 298, "because it gives completion to the
fabrication of generation." For, says he, "this number is adapted
to generation (i.e. the sublunary region); since it proceeds
from the monad as far as to the last numbers without retrogresion;
and this is the peculiarity of generation." And thus
much for the appellations of the ennead.
CHAPTER XI1
On the decad.
THE decad according to the extracts from Nicomachus was
denominated by the Pythagoreans "the world, heaven, fate,
eternity, strength, faith, necessity, Atlas, unwearied, God,
Phancs, the sun, Urania, memory and Mnemosyne."
The anonymous author informs us that the first of these appellations
the world, was given to the decad, "from all things
being arranged according to it both universally and partially."
But as Protospatharius observes (in Hesiodi Dies) it was called
the decad, from containing every number in itself, ~EXOIIEVV