Pythagoras: His Life and Teaching, a Compendium of Classical Sources (73 page)

p. 344 note 238.
“bear ill-will.” The original Ms. of Diogenes Laertius'
Lives of Eminent Philosophers
has
, which was copied by Stanley. Hicks rendered the phrase “suffer censure” Yonge translated it, “be blamed.”

(For
see Liddel Scott, A
Greek-English Lexicon
under
. Cf. Hicks,
Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers
, Vol 2 p. 325. Yonge,
Diogenes Laertius, The Lives And Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
, p. 340)

p. 345 note 259. For
perhaps read
. The Greek text of Iamblicus'
Life of Pythagoras
Cap. 19, 77 reads:
. Kiessling also noted that
, “art, craft,” is corrupt in this context. (Cf.
Iamblichi Chalcidensis Ex Coele-Suria De Vita Pythagorica
, Vol. 1, p. 200-201) The sentence requires the meaning of “mark” or “sign,” hence Kiessling's Latin translation
Etiam alia similia potentiae Abaradis
vestigia
memorantur.
“Many other such signs of the power of Abaris were reported.”

p. 346 note 297. For
reading,
, “Thus, as said by Plato….”

From Iamblicus' Life of Pythagoras, Chapter 16, the passage in full reads:

“By all these inventions, therefore, he divinely healed and purified the soul, resuscitated and saved its divine part, and conducted to the intelligible its divine eye, which, as Plato says, is better worth saving than ten thousand corporeal eyes.”

The reference to Plato is from his
Republic, Book VII, Chapter X
, where in the dialogue, the argument is made that the study of science and mathematics, while difficult, enlightens the soul: “that by these branches of study some organ of the soul in each individual is purified and rekindled like fire, after having been destroyed and blinded by other kinds of study–an organ, indeed, better worth saving than ten-thousand eyes, since by that alone truth can be seen.”

This same passage from Plato is also quoted by Nicomachus in his Introduction To Arithmetic (Chapter 3) as a defense of the four sciences of Arithmetic, Geometry, Music and Astronomy.

(Kiessling,
Iamblichi Chalcidensis Ex Coele-Suria De Vita Pythagorica
, Vol. 1, p. 148. Taylor,
Iamblicus' Life of Pythagoras
, p. 37. Burges,
Works of Plato
, Vol. 2, p. 217. D'Ooge,
Introduction to Arithmetic, by Nicomachus of Gerasa
(pp. 181-190))

p. 346 note 308. For
, “savage Aenean” perhaps read
“Agrinean.”