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102 Or did they, like the adherents of Pythagoras, regard the even number as female and the odd number as male? Cf. 264 a, supra. For the odd number is generative, and, when it is added to the even number, it prevails over it. And also, when they are divided into units, the even number, like the female, yields a vacant space between, while of the odd number an integral part always remains. Wherefore they think that the odd is suitable for the male, and the even for the female.

102 Or is it that of all numbers nine Cf.Moralia, 744 a-b. is the first square from the odd and perfect triad, while eight is the first cube from the even dyad? Now a man should be four-square, Cf. Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graec., Simonides, Frag. 5 (or Edmonds, Lyra Graeca, in L.C.L. ii. p. 284). eminent, and perfect; but a woman, like a cube, should be stable, domestic, and difficult to remove from her place. And this should be added, that eight is the cube of two arid nine the square of three: women have two names, men have three.

103 Why do they call children of unknown fathers spurii? Cf. Gaius, Institutiones, i. 64; Valerius Maximus, De Praenominibus, 6 (p. 590 of Kempf’s ed.).