Solve for X: Greek Anthology, XIV.1

Polycrates:

Blessed Pythagoras, protégé of the Heliconian Muses,

Tell me: how many students

Are striving for excellence

Within your household?

Pythagoras:

Polycrates, I’ll tell you:

half of them are studying literature;

a fourth of them are studying immortal nature;

a seventh part of them are silent in meditation.

Three of them are women; Theano is the best of them.

That is the number of interpreters of the Muses that I teach.

POLYCRATES:

Fortunate Pythagora, Musarum Heliconius surculus,

dic mihi interroganti, quot sapientiae in certamen

tuae domi sint, inter-se-contendentes optime.

PYTHAGORAS:

Ego igitur dixerim, Polycrates: dimidia-pars quidem

circa pulchras dant-operam doctrinas; quarta pars rursos

immortali naturae laborem-adhibent: sed septimae-parti

silentium penitus curae-est, et aeterni intus sermones.

Tres vero mulieres sunt, Theano autem supereminet

Tot Pieridum interpretes ego duco.

Πολυκράτης

 Όλβιε Πυθαγόρη Μουσέων Ελικώνιον έρνος

είπέ μοι ειρομένω οπόσοι σοφίης κατ αγώνα

σοισι δόμοισιν έασιν άεθλεύοντες άριστα

Πυθαγόρας 

Τοιγάρ έγών είπoιμι Πολύκρατες ημίσεες μεν

αμφί καλά σπεύδουσι μαθήματα τετρατοι αύτε

 αθανάτου φύσεως πεπονήαται εβδομάτοις δε

 σιγή πάσα μέμηλε και άφθιτοι ένδοθι μύθοι

 τρείς δε γυναίκες έασι Θεανώ δ εξοχος άλλων

 Τόσσους Πιερίδων υποφήτορας αυτός αγινώ.

--Socrates, Greek Anthology XIV.1, Translated into Latin by Fred. Duebner

 The Greek Anthology is a modern collection of Greek lyric poetry compiled from various sources over the course of Greco-Roman literature. The current collection was created from two major sources, one from the 10^th century CE and one from the 14^th century CE. The anthology contains authors spanning the entirety of Greek literature, from archaic poets to Byzantine Christian poets.