"And once more is this true in the case of music; not only because the absolute is prior to the relative, as 'great' to 'greater' and 'rich' to 'richer' and 'man' to 'father,' but also because the musical harmonies, diatessaron, diapente, and diapason, are named for numbers; similarly all of their harmonic ratios are arithmetical ones, for the diatessaron [] is the ratio of 4 : 3, the diapente [] that of 3 : 2, and the diapason [perfect ] the double ratio [2 : 1]; and the most perfect, the di-diapason [], is the quadruple ratio [4 : 1]."