Pythagoras: His Life and Teaching, a Compendium of Classical Sources (48 page)

230
Plutarch,
De Fortuna Alexander
Liber I, Chap. 4.

231
Josephus,
Contra Apionem
, Liber I., Chap. 2.

232
Lucian,
Pro Lapsu Inter Salutandum
, 5.

233
Porphyry,
De Vita Pythagorae
, Chap. 57.

234
Rufinus,
Apologiae In Sanctum Hieronimum
, Liber II, Chap. 7.

235
[De
Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap. 5].
[“poor workmanship”],
artes callidas
[“crafty art”] &
vafras
[“cunning”]. So is
[“mischevious art”] sometimes taken in a good sense; Gregory Nazianzus,
Adversus Julianus
, Oratio 4,
the text being so to be restored.†

236
Clement of Alexandria,
Stromateis
, Liber I, Chap. 21.

237
Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap. 5

238
[“bear ill-will”],† the Interpreters both otherwise.

239
Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap. 5

240
Eustathius,
Ad Homeri Iliadem
, 2.

241
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 19.

242
Hierocles of Alexandria,
Commentarius in Aurea Carmina
, 45–48.

243
[Ion of Chios, a dramatist, poet and philosopher of the 5th Century
B.C.
was the author of a work entitled
Triagmos
(or
Triagmoi)
of which fragments survive possibly indicating Pythagorean ideas. Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap.8, stated, “According to Ion of Chios in his
Triagmi
[Pythagoras] ascribed some of his own poems to Orpheus.” Cf. also Clement of Alexandria,
Stromateis
, Liber I, Chap. 21 where this same statement occurs almost verbatim.—Ed.]

244
Isidore,
Etymologiae
, Liber III, Chap. 2

245
Tzetzes,
Chiliades
I, 58.

246
Pliny,
Naturalis Historiae
, Liber XXIV, Chap. 101.

247
Proclus,
In Platonis Timaeum
, Liber III.

248
Aulus Gellius,
Noctes Atticae
, Liber VII, Chap. 2.

249
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 36.

250
Laertius,
De Vitis Philosophorum
, Liber VIII, Chap. 5.

251
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 5.

252
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 34.

253
Thucydides,
De bello Peloponnesiaco
, Liber VI, Chap. 4.

254
[From ‘
in turn from
“keep the Adonia” (mourning for Adonis). The 15th Idyll of Theocritus is named
(The Syracuse Women, or the Adonis Festival). This Idyll was sometimes was sometimes simply called “Adoniazousai”—Ed.]

255
Mr. Sherburn. [Sir Edward Sherburn, cousin of Thomas Stanley, translator of
Theocritus
.—Ed.]

256
Porphyry,
De Vita Pythagorae
, Chap. 22.

257
Ibid, Chap. 21.

258
Iamblichus,
De Vita Pythagorica
, Chap. 19.

259
For
perhaps read
†

260
Strabo,
Rerum Geographicarum
, Liber VI, Chap. 12.

261
Josephus,
Contra Apionem
, Liber I, Chap. 22.