"Since each number is with respect to its own kind one and without parts but with respect to its own material, as it were, divisible into parts, though not with respect to all of the material either; but rather what is ultimate [in it, i.e., the unit] is without parts even in the material, and in this ultimate thing [counting or calculation and, above all, partitioning] comes to a stop."
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, Timaeum (ca. 450 A.D.) Ernst Diehl, Vol. II, p. 138 as quoted by Jacob Klein, Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra (1968) Tr. Eva Brann.
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