“NUMBER: Wisdom Above All Other”

From the John Scully and C.J. Herington translation of Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound:

What’s more, for them I invented
NUMBER: wisdom
above all other.
And the painstaking, putting together of
LETTERS: to be their memory
of everything, to be their Muses’
mother, their
handmaid!

But above all, number. Thanks to Virginia Postrel for the pointer.

 

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