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“Plato was instructed in their nature by Philolaus his preceptor, and the disciple of Pythagoras.”
“Pythagoras, in the sacred discourse, calls number "the ruler of forms and ideas." But Philolaus, "the commanding and self-begotten container of the eternal duration of mundane concerns." And Hippasus and all those... under the probation of the quinquennial silence... "the first exemplar of the mundane fabric, and the judiciary instrument of its artificer."”
“Such... being the middle nature of the soul, Plato, with great propriety, in the Phædrus, and in his tenth book of laws, defines it to be number moving itself; which definition he received from Philolaus, and Philolaus from Pythagoras.”