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Pythagoras
of Samos - Greek philosopher, 6th century B.C.
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Aelian:NA_5.11
It has no need of Pythagoras for counsellor, but flowers
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it has never heard of Pythagoras of Samos, for all that
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the followers of Pythagoras also say this touching the
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east, as tells the philosopher Pythagoras, Homer's soul
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hold that it represents Pythagoras, but this opinion is
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men admire; following Pythagoras in this doctrine alone
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to the doctrine of the Pythagoreans about plots against
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eat me. And in his Pythagorean he says - & For being hungr
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sus relates in his treatise on Pythagoras. But he did not
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ecatomb. [419] But Pythagoras was a very sparing drinker,
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Aristophon, in his Pythagorean, says:- & Now, is not Eros
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ith its spell the Samian Pythagoras; yet he had discovered
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gly, "Cleinias the Pythagorean," [624] as Chamaeleon of
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sation about music : for Pythagoras the Samian, who had
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that it was mentioned by Pythagoras, in his treatise on
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to last for ever. The Pythagoreans hold that the universe originates
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first place, all the Pythagoreans, and the followers of
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years before the time of Pythagoras; for which reason he is
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ease and retirement, as Pythagoras, Democritus, Anaxagoras, and they
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of Tarentum Philolaus, or Pythagoras himself all that old
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harmony, following the methods of Pythagoras.
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at least a follower, of Pythagoras ? For we have often
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and learned , such as Pythagoras and Empedocles, who declare that
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knowledge of, had she read, Pythagoras or Plato ** And yet
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the power of which, as Pythagoras had fancied, some ages before,
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Tullus. His disciple Pythagoras greatly confirmed this
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the same opinion with Pythagoras concerning the immortality of
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reason why the opinion of Pythagoras and Plato may not be
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which, if you will believe Pythagoras, is the highest pitch of
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only a poet, but a Pythagorean philosopher, also, for that is
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[17.] [36] Should Pythagoras, Socrates, or Plato, say to
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and improved; for they had Pythagoras, a man of consummate wisdom
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to the vestiges of the Pythagoreans, though I might collect many,
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written much about them, the Pythagoreans spread over all Italy: but
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very old description of Pythagoras, and afterwards that of
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We are informed that Pythagoras, Democritus, and Plato, visited
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to these you add Pythagoras, Democritus, and Plato. What,
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continued to the age of Pythagoras, who is reported to have
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[4.] [10] Nor was Pythagoras the inventor only of the
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would very well become Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato, to
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the story of those two Pythagoreans: one of these had been
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imagine a Democritus, a Pythagoras, and an Anaxagoras; what
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to the custom of the Pythagoreans, and having books read to
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of calling yourself a Pythagorean, and of hiding your
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on the Doctrines of the Pythagoreans; one on Things in
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into a common stock, as Pythagoras did, who said that the
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er] - Quintus at last out of a Pythagorean peacock. SCHOLI
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the philosopher Pythagoras lived at the same time as
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es, and one of these was Pythagoras, who became a student
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[conquered] Egypt; and Pythagoras was seized: (?) 540
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in Ar.] Nigidius Figulus, the Pythagorean sage, died in
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Anaxilaus of Larissa, a Pythagorean wise man, was banishe
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hians. Sextus, the Pythagorean philosopher, was born [ or
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whom the Greeks call Pythagoreans, concerning whom I shall
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philosophical system of Pythagoras, and lived in Athens
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senators of ours rated Pythagoras above Socrates, whom the
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who was reigning when Pythagoras was in Egypt, and
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the Parians followed the Pythagorean philosophy, and they
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of the same opinion as Pythagoras in his cloak.
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Metapontum in the precepts of Pythagoras, and after long labour and
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in the sacred rites of Pythagorean wisdom, had contracted such a
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example of industriousness, Pythagoras, a most perfect
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there the precepts of Pythagoras, from Archytas of Tarentum,
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to them. The pupils of Pythagoras venerated him so much, that
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calumniators belonged Epicurus and Pythagoras. They held that these
Pythagoras 2
of Laconia - victor in the stadion race at the Olympic games, 716 B.C.
Euseb]:Chron_195
16th [716 B.C.] - Pythagoras of Laconia, stadion race 17t
Pythagoras 3
of Magnesia - victor in the stadion race at the Olympic games, 300 B.C.
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mpic victor in the stadion race: Pythagoras of Magnesia-on-Maeander.
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Olympic victor in the stadion race: Pythagoras of Magnesia (II)
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izes at all the major games, Pythagoras in the stadion race, and Nico
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race 120th [300 B.C.] - Pythagoras of Magnesia-on-Maeande
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der, in the stadion race Pythagoras won twice at the Olymp
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of Samos - victor in the boxing contest at the Olympic games, 588 B.C.
Euseb]:Chron_199
of Croton, stadion race Pythagoras of Samos was excluded
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- an officer of Ptolemy Philadelphus
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Pythagoras, an officer of Ptolemy, extracts a huge piece of rock-c
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itings about the Red Sea Pythagoras says that there is an
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is the account given by Pythagoras and attested by Crates
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by Ptolemy's officer Pythagoras. Cornelius Bocchus mentions,
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of Zacynthus - a Greek musician
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for instance, the tripod of Pythagoras of Zacynthus.
Pythagoras
- in documents
OGIS_106
(174-172) ely: Herakleon son of Pythagoras Nikostratos son of
OGIS_59
(163) Me... Pythagoras Eudemos Bakchon Aphrodisios
Syll_333
(304-301) osed by Molpos son of Pythagoras and Amphidokos so
Syll_372
(301-281) ing the night from Pythagoras, the king arrive
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(c.260) izen, when our envoys Pythagoras, Epikouros and La
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(c. 260) ited by our envoys - Pythagoras, Epikouros and La
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(251/0) ny, in full assembly; Pythagoras of Alopeke, the
Syll_559
(c. 207/6) ely Philiskos son of Pythagoras, Konon son of Dion
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(203/2) the Teians have sent Pythagoras and Kleitos as en
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(203/2) enians: Amyklas Since Pythagoras son of Kleitos and
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(203/2) Teians have sent [Pythagoras son of Kleitos] and
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(203/2) ians] have granted to Pythagoras and Kleitos of T
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