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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    lamblichus shared in an eminent degree the fa- vor of divinity, on account of his cultivation of justice; and obtained a numerous multitude of associates and disciples, who came from all parts - \ of the world, for the purpose of participating the streams of wisdom, which so plentifully flowed from the sacred fountain of his wonderful mind. Among these was Sopater the Syrian/ who -was most skilful both in speaking and waiting; Eusta- thius the Cappadocian ; and of the Greeks, Theo- doras and Euphrasius. All these were excellent for their virtues and attainments, as well as many other of his disciples, who were not much inferior των εννοιών πραγματικόν, και γλαφυρόν, και ενθουν, κ. λ. See the Testimonies prefixed by Gale to his edition of the above-mentioned work. This Sopater succeeded Plotinus in his philosophical school»