Etymologies
Translated by Ernest Brehaut
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Chapter 2. On the seven liberal arts.
1. The disciplines belonging to the liberal arts are seven. First, grammar, that is, practical knowledge of speech. Second, rhetoric, which is considered especially necessary in civil causes because of the brilliancy and copiousness of its eloquence. Third, dialectic, called also logic, which separates truth from falsehood by the subtlest distinctions.
2. Fourth, arithmetic, which includes the significance and the divisions of numbers. Fifth, music, which consists of poems and songs.
3. Sixth, geometry, which embraces measurements and dimensions. Seventh, astronomy, which contains the law of the stars.
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