Numerology and text in anatolios of laodikaia, on the Decade

Abstract

Anatolios' Decade is rarely read despite its interest as a document of the transition from late paganism to early Christianity. Dating probably from his tenure as professor in Alexandria, it is the earliest extant work devoted to neo-pythagorean arithmology: the earlier Mathematics of Theon of Smurna only includes a little such material, while merely fragments of the earlier Arithmetic of Nikomakhos of Gerasa are preserved, in the summary by Photios of what may be Iamblikhos' work. Here I want to offer four emendations to the text of Anatolios as printed by Heiberg (1900): the text is disordered and has a lacuna in the section on 7, while in the material on 10 there is a haplography and a garble.