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Let \(M={\mathbb H}^2/\text{PSL}_2({\mathbb Z})\) be the modular surface with the induced hyperbolic metric \(g\) of constant curvature \(-1.\) Denote by \(N^{g_{\varepsilon}}(a)\) the number of closed geodesics of length \(\leq a\) on \(M\) with the metric \(g_{\varepsilon},\) which has negative curvature and is a perturbation of \(g.\) If \(\delta_{\varepsilon}\) is the critical exponent of the Poincaré series associated with \(\text{PSL}_2({\mathbb Z})\), then the authors show that \(N^{g_{\varepsilon}}(a) \geq \exp (a \delta_{\varepsilon})/(a \delta_{\varepsilon}).\) As an application, a new proof of the asymptotic distribution of the Lévy constants of the quadratic numbers is obtained. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0893.00017].