Seven have two dactyls, as laudabilis numerus, laudat exercitus; one ends with spondees, apostolorum chorus.

Hæ vectantur in singulis curribus, et singularum ad hoc maximis curribus cum custodia cuiuscunque crucis, decem mille equitum, et centum mille peditum, nec tamen hic numerus auget vel minuit principalem exercitum Paganorum.

Copiosus quoque numerus formosorum puerorum, et puellarum, ætatis inter decem et sex decem annos, indutorum torquibus, et cycladibus exauratis, exercentium inter iocos cantus et spectacula, ac seruientium suo Domino prope nutum.

For my part I am one of the number, nos numerus sumus, (we are mere ciphers): I do not deny it, I have only this of Macrobius to say for myself, Omne meum, nihil meum, 'tis all mine, and none mine.

Nos numerus sumus, I confess it again, I am as foolish, as mad as any one.

" "Si Numerus uti censet sine amore jocisque, Nil est jucundum, vivas in amore jocisque.

Accrescit dulcis affinium turba, duplicatur numerus parentum, fratrum, sororum, nepotum.10.

Some again, though less orthodoxal, will have a far greater part saved than shall be damned, (as Caelius Secundus stiffly maintains in his book, De amplitudine regni coelestis, or some impostor under his name) beatorum numerus multo major quam damnatorum.

disciplinae est indicium jurisperitorum numerus, et medicorum copia.

Villarum non est numerus, nullus locus otiosus aut incultus.

ad quos magnus herbariorum numerus undique confluit.

The present comprehensive use of the term is but an extension of the Middle-Age division of the liberal arts into the Trivium,Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectics,and the Quadrivium,Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy,as expressed in the verse, "Lingus, tropus, ratio, numerus, tenor, angulus, astra.

Rari quippe boni: numerus vix est totidem quot Thebarum portae, vel divitis ostia Nili.

All these definitions had their origin in an old Latin one, which, although it is somewhat better, makes doubtful logic in its application: "NUMERUS est, unius et multorum distinctio.

'Defendit numerus, junctæque umbone Phalanges.' Juv.