[Meaning] the [numbers] which in arithmetic are called unpaired, such as one, three, and the like. Paired [numbers] are even, such as two, four.[1]
"Abandon superfluous words, and do not teach me that my mother is bad or that Aegisthus draws from the house the paternal inheritance and pours out some [goods] but vainly scatters others. For speech would drive out your opportune time." For, he is saying, the idleness of talk takes away the opportunity of the deeds which are going to be done. Orestes says [this] to Electra.[2]