Note 90 — SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN.
Thomas Taylor translation
For as every cause of existence to a thing, is better than that thing, so far as the one is cause and the other effect; thus also that which gives a name to any thing is better than the thing named, so far as it is named, i. e. so far as pertains to its possession of a name. For the nominator is the cause, and the name the effect.