# Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis 6.21

Athenagoras, Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis, Chapter 6. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/athenagoras/legatio-sive-supplicatio-pro-christianis/6.21

Καὶ Φιλόλαος δέ, ὥσπερ ἐν φρουρᾷ πάντα ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ περιειλῆφθαι λέγων, καὶ τὸ ἕνα εἶναι καὶ τὸ ἀνωτέρω τῆς ὕλης δεικνύει. Λύσις δὲ καὶ Ὄψιμος ὁ μὲν ἀριθμὸν ἄῤῥητον ὁρίζεται τὸν θεόν, ὁ δὲ τοῦ μεγίστου τῶν ἀριθμῶν τὴν παρὰ τὸν ἐγγυτάτω ὑπεροχήν. Εἰ δὲ μέγιστος μὲν ἀριθμὸς ὁ δέκα κατὰ τοὺς Πυθαγορικούς, ὁ τετρακτύς τε ὢν καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἀριθμητικοὺς καὶ τοὺς ἁρμονίους περιέχων λόγους, τούτῳ δὲ ἐγγὺς παράκειται ὁ ἐννέα, μονάς ἐστιν ὁ θεός, τοῦτ᾿ ἔστιν εἷς. Ἑνὶ γὰρ ὑπερέχει ὁ μέγιστος τὸν ἐγγυτάτω ἐλάχιστον αὐτῷ.

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Athenagoras, Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis, ed. Francis Andrew March, William Baxter Owen. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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