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ject of calculation, produces as a root, according to the rule of the number nine, two monads. Patroclus, however, produces nine monads; Patroclus gains the victory. For when one number is uneven, but the other even, the uneven number, if it is larger, prevails. But again, when there is an even number, eight, and five an uneven number, the eight prevails, for it is larger. If, however, there were two numbers, for example, both of them even, or both of them odd, the smaller prevails. But how does [the name] Sarpedon, according to the rule of the number nine, make two monads, since the letter [long] o is omitted? For when there may be in a name the letter [long] o and [long] e, they leave out the [long] o, using one letter, because they say both are equipollent; and the same must not be computed twice over, as has been above declared. Again, [the name] Ajax makes four monads; [but the name] Hector, according to the rule of the ninth number, makes one monad. And the tetrad is even, whereas the monad odd. And in the case of such, we say, the greater prevails—Ajax gains the victory. Again, Alexander and Menelaus [may be adduced as examples]. Alexander has a proper name [Paris]. But Paris, according to the rule of the number nine, makes four monads; and Menelaus, according to the rule of the number nine, makes nine monads. The nine, however, conquer the four [monads]: for it has been declared, when the one number is odd and the other even, the greater prevails; but when both are even or both odd, the less [prevails]. Again, Amycus and Polydeuces [may be adduced as examples]. Amycus, according to the rule of the number nine, makes two monads, and Polydeuces, however, seven: Polydeuces gains the victory. Ajax and Ulysses contended at the funeral games. Ajax, according to the rule of the number nine, makes four monads; Ulysses, according to the rule of the number nine, [makes] eight.^[1] Is there, then, not any annexed, and [is there] not a proper name for Ulysses?^[2] for he has gained the victory. Accord-

1. Miller says there is an error in the calculation here.
2. This is as near the sense of the passage as a translation in some respects conjectural can make it.