Pythagoras: His Life and Teaching, a Compendium of Classical Sources

by Wasserman, James

  167 Athenaeus, Deipnosophistarum, Liber XII, Chap. 19.

  168 Iamblicus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 32.

  169 Tzetzes, Chiliades, V, 31.

  170 Tzetzes, Chiliades, VI, 30.

  171 Iamblichus, , De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 30.

  172 Ibid.

  173 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 54

  174 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 23. Iamblicus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 13.

  175 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 24 and Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 13.

  176 Plutarch, Numa, Chap. 8.

  177 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 25, and Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 13.

  178 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 27.

  179 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 27. and Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 28.

  180 Plutarch, Numa, Chap. 8.

  181 Laertius, De Vitis Philosophorum, Liber VIII, Chap. 9, and Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 28.

  182 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 28.

  183 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 28.

  184 Anonymous, De Vita Pythagorae apud [“in the works of”] Photius.

  185 Laertius, De Vitis Philosophorum, Liber VIII, Chap. 19.

  186 Aristophanes, Nubes, 749–756.

  187 Hermippus apud Laertius, De Vitis Philosophorum, Liber VIII, Chap. 21.

  188 Laertius, De Vitis Philosophorum, Liber VIII, Chap. 4.

  189 Laertius, De Vitis Philosophorum, Liber VIII, Chap. 19.

  190 So read [Pyrrhus], not Pythius.†

  191 Justin, Historiarum Philippicarum, Liber XX, Chap. 4.

  192 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 55.

  193 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 56.

  194 ill rendered, amicorum inopia [“lack of friends”].†

  195 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 57.

  196 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 35.

  197 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 2.

  198 Ibid, Chap. 2.†

  199 Laertius, De Vitis Philosophorum, Liber VIII, Chap. 9.

  200 Ibid, Chap. 20.

  201 Athenaeus, Deipnosophistarum, Liber X, Chap. 13.

  202 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 34.

  203 Laertius, De Vitis Philosophorum, Liber VIII, Chap. 18.

  204 Ibid. See also Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 21.

  205 Aelian, Varia Historia, Liber XII, Chap. 32.

  206 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 32.

  207 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 30.

  208 Plutarch, Numa, Chap. 1.

  209 Pliny, Naturalis Historiae, Liber XXIII, Chap. 7.

  210 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 5.

  211 Pliny, Naturalis Historiae, Liber XXXIV, Chap. 19.

  212 Pliny, Naturalis Historiae, Liber XIX, Chapter 30.

  213 Suidas Lexicon

  214 Pliny, Naturalis Historiae, Liber XXXVII, Chap. 9.

  215 Ibid, Liber XXXIV, Chap. 19.

  216 Suidas, Lexicon, In [voce] Theano [in the name —Ed.].

  217 Ibid.

  218 Theodoret, Graecarum Affectionum Curatio, Chap. 2.

  219 Iamblicus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 36.

  220 Laertius, De Vitis Philosophorum, Liber VIII, Chap. 22.

  221 Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis, Liber IV, Chap. 19.

  222 Suidas, Lexicon. [in the name —Ed.]

  223 Plutarch, Numa, Chap. 8.

  224 Suidas, Lexicon. In [voce] Pythagoras [in the name —Ed.]

  225 Perhaps

  226 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 3.

  227 Anonymous, De Vita Pythagorae apud Photius, Chap. 22.

  228 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 10.

  229 Herodotus, Liber IV. also found as “Zalmoxis,” and “Salmoxis”—Ed.]

  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.

  262 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 36.

  263 [Cf. Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 36, where the number is 218.—Ed.]

  264 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 28.

  265 Ibid.

  266 Read [“two-footed,” i.e. “bipedal.”] See Etymologicon Magnum.

  267 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 6.

  268 Ibid.

  269 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 20.

  270 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 28.

  271 Aelian, Varia Historia, Liber IV, Chap. 17.

  272 Cicero, De Natura Deorum, Liber I, Chap. 5

  273 Gregory Nazianzen, Adversus Julianus, 102.

  274 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 34.

  275 Apuleius in Apologia cites this sentence of Pythagoras.

  276 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap 17.

  277 Ibid.

  278 Ibid.

  279 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 20.

  280 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 13.

  281 Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, Liber I, Chap. 9.

  282 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 20.

  283 Ibid.

  284 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 46.

  285 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 17.

  286 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 29.

  287 Iamblichus, De Vita Pyt
hagorica, Chap. 17.

  288 Hesychius of Alexandria, Lexicon [under —Ed.].

  289 Simplicius, Epicteti stoici philosophi Enchiridion, Chap. 42.

  290 Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis, Liber V, Chap. 11.

  291 Lucian, Vitarum Auctio.

  292 Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, Liber I, Chap. 9.

  293 Ibid.

  294 Apuleius, Florida, Chap. 15.

  295 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 16.

  296 Ibid.

  297 For [“Thus, as said by Plato…”].†

  298 Diodorus, Excerpta Valesiana, p. 245.

  299 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 31.

  300 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 17.

  301 Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, Liber I, Chap. 9.

  302 Laertius, De Vitis Philosophorum, Liber VIII, Chap. 10.

  303 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 18.

  304 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 17.

  305 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 17.

  306 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 37.

  307 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 18.

  308 For [“savage Aenean”], perhaps read [“Agrinean”].†

  309 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 20 and Chap. 21, for the chapters are here also confounded.

  310 For perhaps read [“and linen garment”]. Yet Laertius expressly says that linen was not as yet used in those parts.†

  311 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 29.

  312 From Iamblichus restore Diodorus in Excerpta Valesiana page 245, reading

  313 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 40.

  314 Ibid.

  315 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 23.

  316 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap.17.

  317

  318 Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis, Liber V, Chapter 9.

  319 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 46.

  320 Justin Martyr, Dialogus cum Tryphone Judaeo, Chap. 2.

  321 Proclus, In Primum Euclidis Elementorum, Liber I, Chap. 15.

  322 Ibid, Liber I, Chap. 12.

  323 Tò Barocius renders it otherwise.†

  324 Read

  325 Read

  326 Nicomachus, [“Introduction to Arithmetic”] (so supply the Title, as a page. 30. 35. 44. 62. 76) Chap. 4.†

  327 Read

  328 Laertius, De Vitis Philosophorum, Liber VIII, Chap. 11.

  329 Stobaeus, Eclogarum Physicarum et Ethicarum, Liber I, Chap. 2.

  330 Isidore, Etymologiae, Liber III, Chap. 2

  331 Isidore, Etymologiae, Liber III, Chap. 2 & Stobaeus, Eclogarum Physicarum et Ethicarum, Liber I, Chap. 2.

  332 Nicomachus, Introductionis Arithmeticae, Chap. 6

  333 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 28.

  334 Theon of Smyrna, Mathematica, Chap. 1.

  335 Nicomachus, Introductionis Arithmeticae, Chap. 6.

  336 Moderatus apud Stobaeus Eclogarum Physicarum et Ethicarum, Liber I, Chap. 41.

  337 Theon of Smyrna, Mathematica, Chap. 4.

  338 Anonymous, De Vita Pythagorae apud Photius, Chap. 3.

  339 Stobaeus Eclogarum Physicarum et Ethicarum, Liber I, Chap. 1.

  340 Themistius, In Aristotelis Physica Paraphrasis, Chap. 3.

  341 Aristotle, Physica, Liber III, Chap. 4.

  342 Eustratius, Ethica Nicomachea. 1 & Servius, Incipit Expositio Primae Eclogae, VIII.†

  343 Nicomachus, Introductionis Arithmeticae, Chap. 6.

  344 Themistius, In Aristotelis Physica Paraphrasis, Chap. 3.

  345 Macrobius, Saturnalia, Liber I, Chap. 13.

  346 Servius, Grammatici in Virgilii Aeneidos, 3.

  347 Plutarch, De Vita et Poesi Homeri.

  348 Servius, Grammatici in Virgilii Aeneidos, 3.

  349 Ptolemy, Mathematicus Tetrabiblios, Liber 1, Chap. 15.

  350 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae, 34.

  351 Plutarch, De Animae Procreatione in Timaeo, Chap. 2

  352 Simplicius, In Aristotles Physicorum, Liber III.

  353 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae, Chap. 48.

  354 Dechad (from comprehension).

  355 Moderatus apud Stobaeus, Eclogarum Physicarum et Ethicarum, Liber I, Chap. 2.

  356 Nicomachus, Introductionis Arithmeticae, Chap. 6, Photius apud Nicomachus, Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  357 Alexander of Aphrodisias, In Aristotelis Metaphysica Commentaria.

  358 Nicomachus, Theologumena Arithmeticae apud Photius.

  359 Macrobius, Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis, Liber I, Chap. 6.

  360 Aristoxenus in Libro Pythagorico, cited by Theon of Smyrna, Mathematica, Chap. 5.

  361 Macrobius.

  362 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae.

  363 Nicomachus.

  364 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  365 Nicomachus & Theologumena Arithmeticae apud Photius.

  366 Nicomachus.

  367 Simplicius In Aristotelis De Coelo.

  368 Proclus, In Platonis Timaeum, Liber IV.

  369 Proclus, In Platonis Timaeum, Liber IV.

  370 Martianus Capella, De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, Liber VII.

  371 Nicomachus.

  372 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  373 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  374 Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  375 Alexander of Aphrodisias, In Aristotelis Metaphysica Commentaria, I.

  376 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  377 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  378 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  379 Macrobius, Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis, Liber I, 6.

  380 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  381 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  382 Martianus Capella.

  383 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae & Proclus, In Platonis Timaeum.

  384 Martianus Capella.

  385 Martianus Capella.

  386 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  387 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  388 Plutarch in Numa.

  389 Hesychius of Alexandria, Lexicon.

  390 Plutarch, De Placitis Philosophorum, Liber I, Chap. 3.

  391 Porphyry, De Vita Pythagorae.

  392 Nicomachus.

  393 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  394 Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride.

  395 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae.

  396 Nicomachus.

  397 Simplicius, In Aristotles Physicorum, Liber I.

  398 Nicomachus.

  399 Nicomachus.

  400 Nicomachus.

  401 Nicomachus.

  402 Anonymous.

  403 Nicomachus.

  404 Anonymous.

  405 Nicomachus.

  406 Nicomachus.

  407 Anonymous.

  408 Nicomachus.

  409 Nicomachus.

  410 Anonymous.

  411 Nicomachus.

  412 Nicomachus.

  413 Nicomachus.

  414 Anonymous, Theologumena Arithmeticae & Martianus Capella.

  415 Nicomachus.

  416 Nicomachus.

  417 Anonymous.

  418 Nicomachus.

  419 Anonymous.

  420 Anonymous. Alexander of Aphrodisias, in Aristotelis Metaphysica Commentaria, I & John Philoponus, In Aristotelis Metaphisica.

  421 Anonymous.

  422 Anonymous.

  423 Simplicius, In Aristotles De Anima.

  424 Anonymous.

  425 Anonymous & Martianus Capella.

  426 Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride.

  427 Hesychius of Alexandria, Lexicon.

  428 Martianus Capella & Favonius Eulogius, Disputatio De Somnio Scipionis.

  429 John Philoponus, In Aristotelis Metaphisica, 1.

  430 Plutarch, De Placitis Philosophorum, Liber I, Chap. 3.

  431 Nicomachus, Theologumena Arithmeticae apud
Photius.

  432 Anonymous, Theologumenis Arithmeticis.

  433 Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica, Chap. 28.

  434 Simplicius, In Aristotles De Anima.

  435 Nicomachus.

  436 Nicomachus.

  437 Anonymous.

  438 Nicomaachus.

  439 Anonymous.

  440 Anonymous.

  441 Anatolius.

  442 Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, Liber I, Chap 20.

  443 Johannes Protospath, in Hesiod, Opera et Dies.

  444 Lucian, Pro Lapsu Inter Salutandum, Chap. 5.

  445 Irenaus, Adversus Haereses, Liber I, Chap. 1.

  446 Simplicius, In Aristotelis Physicorum, Liber IV.

  447 Hierocles of Alexandria, Commentarius in Aurea Carmina.

  448 Plutarch, De Placitis Philosophorum, Liber I.

  449 Plutarch, De Animae Procreatione in Timaeo, Chap. 30.

  450 Nicomachus.

  451 Nicomachus.

  452 Nicomachus.

  453 Anonymous.

  454 Nicomachus.

  455 Nicomachus.

  456 Anonymous.

  457 Nicomachus.

  458 Plutarch.

  459 Plutarch, De Placitis Philosophorum, Liber I, Chap. 3.

  460 Simplicius, In Aristotles De Anima, 1.

  461 Alexander of Aphrodisias, In Aristotelis Metaphysica Commentaria, 5.

  462 Theon of Smyrna, Mathematica, Chap. 44.

  463 Nicomachus.

  464 Anonymous.

  465 Anonymous.

  466 Nicomachus.

  467 Johannes Protospath, in Hesiod, Opera et Dies.

  468 Nicomachus.

  469 Nicomachus.

  470 Anonymous.

  471 Nicomachus.

  472 Anonymous.

  473 Nicomachus.

  474 Anonymous.

  475 Anonymous & Plutarch, De E Apud Delphos.

  476 Alexander of Aphrodisias, In Aristotelis Metaphysica Commentaria & Johannes Protospath, in Hesiod, Opera et Dies.

  477 Nicomachus.

  478 Nicomachus.

  479 Anonymous.

  480 Nicomachus.

  481 Anonymous.

  482 Nicomachus.

  483 Anonymous.

  484 Nicomachus.

  485 Anonymous.

  486 Anonymous.

  487 Plutarch, De Animae Procreatione in Timaeo.

  488 Plutarch, De E Apud Delphos.

  489 Macrobius, Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis, Liber I, Chap. 6.

  490 Nicomachus.

  491 Anonymous.

  492 Nicomachus.

  493 Anonymous.

  494 Nicomachus.

  495 Martianus Capella, 7.

  496 Nicomachus.

  497 Nicomachus.

  498 Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis, Liber V, Chap. 14.

  499 Plutarch, De Animae Procreatione in Timaeo.

  500 Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis, Liber VI, Chap. 16.