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Pythagoras declared that the cube of the number three controls the course of the moon, since the moon passes through its orbit in twenty-seven days, and the ternio, or triad, which the Greeks call tria/s, when cubed makes twenty-seven.
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Furthermore, our geometers apply the term linea, or line, to what the Greeks call grammh/. This is defined by Marcus Varro as follows: Fr. p. 337, Bipont. A line, says he, is length without breadth or height. But Euclid says more tersely, omitting height : l.c. 2, grammh\ de\ mh=kos a)plate/s. A line is mh=kos a)plate/s, or 'breadthless length.' )Aplate/s cannot be expressed in Latin by a single word, unless you should venture to coin the term inlatabile.
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The positive assertion of Julius Hyginus that he had read a manuscript of Virgil from the poet's own household, in which there was written et ora tristia temptantum sensus torquebit amaror and not the usual reading, sensu torquebit amaro.
