Life of Pythagoras ... Accompanied by fragments of the ethical writings of certain Pythagoreans in the Doric dialect; and a collection of Pythagoric Sentences from Stobaeus and others, which are omitted by Gale in his Opuscula mythologica, and have not been noticed by any editor / Translated from the Greek.

  • Iamblichus, approximately 250-approximately 330
Date:
1818
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Credit: Life of Pythagoras ... Accompanied by fragments of the ethical writings of certain Pythagoreans in the Doric dialect; and a collection of Pythagoric Sentences from Stobaeus and others, which are omitted by Gale in his Opuscula mythologica, and have not been noticed by any editor / Translated from the Greek. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    family equally illustrious, fortunate, and rich. His country was Chalcis, a city of Syria, which was called Cede. He associated wfith Anatolius who was the second to Porphyry, but he far excelled him in his attainments, and ascended to the very summit of philosophy. But after he had been for some time connected with Anatolius, and most pro? bably found him insufficient to satisfy the vast de- sires of his soul, he applied himself to Porphyry, to whom (says Eunapius) he was in nothing infe- rior, except in the structure and power of compo- sition. For his writings were not so elegant and graceful as those of Porphyry : they were neither agreeable, nor perspicuous ; nor free from impu- rity of diction. And though they w7ere not en- tirely involved in obscurity, and perfectly faulty ; yet as Plato formerly said of Xenocrates, he did not sacrifice to the Mercurial Graces. Hence he