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‘Following upon all this that has been said to
you,’ I continued, ‘‘I shall sing one short verse’1
for Nicander and his friends, ‘men of sagacity.’ On
the sixth day of the new month, namely, when the
prophetic priestess is conducted down to the Prytaneum, the first of your three sortitions is for five, she
casting three and you casting two, each with reference
to the other.2 Is not this actually so ?’
‘Yes,’ said Nicander, ‘but the reason must not
be told to others.’
‘Then,’ said I, smiling, ‘until such time as we
become holy men, and God grants us to know the
truth, this also shall be added to what may be said on
behalf of the Five.’
Thus, as I remember, the tale of arithmetical and
of mathematical laudations of E came to an end.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 5.
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