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Didascalicon, Book II: the sciences, their parts and their discipline

Hugh of St Victor · Didascalicon de studio legendi
Translated from the Latin into English by machine.
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Chapter VIII. On arithmetic

Arete in Greek is interpreted virtue in Latin; arithmos, number; hence arithmetic is called the virtue of number. The virtue of number is that all things were formed to its likeness.