Read Pythagoras: His Life and Teaching, a Compendium of Classical Sources Online
Authors: James Wasserman,Thomas Stanley,Henry L. Drake,J Daniel Gunther
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Clement of Alexandria,
Stromateis
, Liber I, Chapter 15., Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap. 4.
64
Cicero,
De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
, Liber V, Chap. 29.
65
Apuleius,
Florida
, Chap. 15.
66
Eusebius,
Praeparatio Evangelica
, Liber X, Chap. 4.
67
Valerius Maximus,
Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium
, Liber VIII. Chap. 7.
68
Lactantius,
Divinarum Institutionum
, Liber I, Chap. 2.
69
Gerard Johann Vossius.
De Philosophorum Sectis
, Vol 1. Chap. 6.
70
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 4, continueth.
71
Valerius Maximus,
Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium
, Liber VIII, 7, 2.
72
Apuleius,
Florida
, Chap. 15.
73
Porphyry,
De Vita Pythagorae
, Chap. 12.
74
Apuleius,
Florida
, Chap. 15.
75
[The reference is to Alexander Polyhistor's now lost “On The Pythagorean Symbols.” This quote is from Clement of Alexandria,
Stromateis
, Liber I, Chapter 15—Ed.]
76
Suidas,
Lexicon, In voce
Pythagoras [i.e. in the name
—Ed.].
77
John Selden,
De Diis Syris Syntagmata II
, pp. 210-213.
78
Clement of Alexandria,
Stromateis
, Liber I, Chap. 15.
79
Porphyry,
De Vita Pythagorae
, Chap. 10.
80
Lactantius,
Divinarum Institutionum
, Liber IV, Chap. 2.
81
Eusebius,
Praeparatio Evangelica
, Liber X, Chapter 4.
82
James Ussher,
Annales Veteris Testamenti
, p. 151 [Julian Year 4189].
83
Josephus,
Contra Apionem
, Liber I, Chap. 22.
84
Origen,
Contra Celsum
, Liber I, Chap. 15.
85
Clement of Alexandria,
Stromateis
, 1, Chap. 22 & Eusebius,
Praeparatio Evangelica
, Liber XIII.
86
Clement of Alexandria,
Stromateis
, Liber I, Chap. 15.
87
Porphyry,
De Vita Pythagorae
, Chap. 12.
88
Clement of Alexandria,
Stromateis
, Liber I, Chap. 15.
89
Porphyry,
De Vita Pythagorae
, Chapter 6.
90
Josephus,
Contra Apionem, Liber I
, Chap. 22.
91
Gerard Johann Vossius.
De Philosophorum Sectis
, Vol 1. Chap. 6.
92
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chapters 2, 5 (for the Chapters are ill-distinguished).
93
Pliny,
Naturalis Historiae
, Liber XXXIII, Chap. 63.
94
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 5 & 7.
95
Clement of Alexandria,
Stromateis
, Liber VII, Chap. 6.
96
Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap. 12.
97
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 5.
98
Porphyry,
De Vita Pythagorae
, Chapter 16, Reading,
[Cf.] Hesychius'
Lexicon
,
99
Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap. 5.
100
Justin,
Historiarum Philippicarum
Lib. XX, Chap. 4.
101
Iamblicus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap 5.
102
Porphyry,
De Vita Pythagorae
, Chap. 17.
103
Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap. 3 [Cf. Apuleius,
Florida
, Chap. 15—Ed.]
104
Porphyry,
De Vita Pythagorae
, Chap. 17
105
Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap. 3
106
Valerius Maximus,
Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium
, Liber VIII, Chap. 7, 2.
107
Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber I,
Prooemium
, Chap. 8.
108
Ibid.
109
Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
,, Liber VIII, Chap. 6.
110
Cicero,
Tuscularum Disputationum
, Liber V, Chap. 3.
111
Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber I,
Prooemium
, Chap. 8, and Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 8.
112
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 5.
113
Porphyry,
De Vita Pythagorae
, Chap. 9.
114
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 5 & 6 (for these also are ill-distinguished).
115
Livy,
Historiarum Ab Urbe Condita
, Decad. 4, Liber XL, Chap. 29.
116
Pliny,
Naturalis Historiae
, Liber XIII, Chap. 13.
117
Diodorus,
Excerpta Valesiana
, p. 241.
118
Clement of Alexandria,
Stromateis
, Liber I, Chap. 14.
119
Ptolemy,
Almagestum
, Liber V, Chap. 14.
120
Diodorus,
Excerpta Valesiana
, p. 241.
121
Strabo,
Rerum Geographicarum
, Liber XIV, Chap. 17.
122
Cicero,
Tuscularum Disputationum
, Liber I, Chap. 4.†
123
Aulus Gellius,
Noctes Atticae
, Liber XVII, Chap. 21.
124
Pliny,
Naturalis Historiae
, Liber II, chap. 8.
125
Cicero,
Tuscularum Disputationum
, Liber I, Chap. 4.
126
Solinus,
De Mirabilibus Mundi
, Liber II, Chap. 4.
127
Eusebius,
Chronicon
.†
128
Eusebius,
Chronicon.
129
Strabo,
Rerum Geographicarum
, Liber VI, Chap. 3.
130
Eusebius,
Chronicon.
131
Ibid.
132
Solinus,
De Mirabilibus Mundi
, Liber II, Chap. 4.
133
Eusebius,
Chronicon.
134
Strabo,
Rerum Geographicarum
, Liber VI, Chap. 2.
135
Thucydides,
De bello Peloponnesiaco
, Liber VI, Chap. 4
136
Eusebius,
Chronicon.
137
Iamblicus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 29.
138
Justin,
Historiarum Philippicarum
, Liber XX, Chap. 2–4.
139
Porphyry,
De Vita Pythagorae
, Chap. 18.
140
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 8.
141
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 8 continueth. The beginning of this Oration is in Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap. 19 also.
142
This is also in Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap. 19.
143
Strabo,
Rerum Geographicarum
, Liber VI, Chap. 12.
144
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap.9
145
Valerius Maximus,
Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium
, Liber VIII, Chap. 15,1.
146
Synessius in
Dion
, Chap. 5 & Cassiodorus,
Variarum
, Liber II, 40.†
147
Aristotle,
Analytica Priora et Posteriora
, Posterior Analytics Chap. 11.
Cicero,
Oratio Pro Licinio Archia
, Oratio IX, “Quasi cognatione quadam” etc.†
148
To the same effect Laertius
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap. 19.
149
Mentioned by Cicero and others.
150
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap 10.
151
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap 11.
152
So supply the text from Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap. 11, who cites something to the same purpose out of Timaeus.†
[Core], is a Name of Proserpina;
Bride, relates to the Nymphs;
[mother], to Cybele mother of the Gods
to Maja, mother of Mercury.