Chapter V

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[70] The substance of Capella’s book is framed in an allegorical narrative of the Marriage of Philology and Mercury. For a nuptial gift, the groom presents the bride with seven maid-servants, symbolizing the Seven Liberal Arts--Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, Music. Cf. Taylor, _Classical Heritage, etc._, p. 49 _sqq._

[71] In Eyssenhardt’s edition.

[72] On the symbolism of Numbers see Cantor, _Vorlesungen über Ges. der Mathematik_, 2nd ed. pp. 95, 96, 146, 156, 529, 531.

[73] See an extraordinary example taken from the treatise against Faustus, _post_,