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X — Xan adu to Xury (Part 2 of 2)

Y, called the “Samian letter.” It was used by Pythagoras of Samos as a symbol of the path of virtue, which is one, like the stem of the letter; but once divergent, the further the two lines are drawn the greater becomes the divergence.