Part IX.

■ ^ ’ chap.it.-
Education and Mqflers.
C»)Vit.r;A,.-\ /TNifirclAs (faith ( cap. 2. IVl nihg from Syria Samus, with much 'wealthy and abundance of Merchandize^ built a Templa^which he dedicated to Apollo the Pythian,
' and brought up his fan in-feveral excellent dtfct-
' " ^nes^ cothmitting hini fomet lines to Creophylus, fometmit-to^’iitxzc^Ati'pfS^^ ter almof
- dl the EEefeih of theTehple-^ OJi being bleji.with
the faireji and moji divine foh that evef man
had, 'iic^ ^ , ■■
fb) Laert So(n6(th(»feare who affirm, iihat (b) he was (f) St. Afgufl.frji a Wreflerv and. that, (c) when Pherecydes Ep.p.ad Voliis.^;^ difeourfed ambng the Greeks^ concerning the 'immcrtitttfofphe SouE; Pythagoras the S.imian, imoved attbkn(no.elty'6fWeAifcoU'r became of a
relation^ feem
to have been occaiioiPd by confounding P>'t^fit- goraf the Philofophei" with a Wreftler ot that name , • WT’ffiontciTlp'orm-y , of whom here-
('J JForfh,^.2, P e) In Fythag.
CfJ Jamil.
As once in Ritterhufins’s Edition , or perhaps n
phj Jamb.
(i) Strabo.
Qi) Florid.l.i.
pl J Jam.con- tinues.
(d) Cleahthes and (e) Suidas relate, That he firfi heard fh and in the fecond place Hermodamas, the Creop'hylian, at the fame Samus, then very old. (/) .Hermodamas was his name ^ but he warfirnamed Creophylus. Wherefore perhaps pnftead of ra Kp£oipcV T^Kgioipuhu-, or elfc he' was termed a Creophylian, as well aslirnamed Creophylus-, (h) for that re- ported tofe dejeended from Creophylus (/J Sa¬ mian, who, in times paji, entcrtcTinedWomzx as his guefl, and was, ' as fame fay, his Majier and his Rival in Poetry. Bti (k) Apuieit/s, who faith, Hermodamas, ox Leodamas, as.hecillshim, was difciple to that Creophylr/s, an error no lefs in Chronology, than when he faith, Pythagoras vi as Difciple to Plato, unlefs the whole Text be cor¬ rupted.
(1) Pythagoras his father dying, he grew up in prudence and temperance, being, whilft he was yet very young, generally much refpeSed and ho¬ noured, even by the moji aged. His prefence and difeourfe atiralledallperfonsyo every one on whom he looked fe appeared worthy admirationynfomuch that many averred, he was the fon of a deity. He being thus con firm’d by the great opinions that were had of him, by the education of his infancy, and by his natural excellency,made himfelf daily more wor¬ thy of thefe advantages, adorning himfelf with De¬ votions, with Sciences, with excellent Converfa- tion, with confiancy of Mind, with grave Deport¬ ment, and with a fweet inimitable Serenity -, ne¬ ver tranf ported with anger, laughter, emulation, contention, or any other dif order living like fome good genius, come to converfe in Samus. Here¬ upon, tho’young,a great report wasfpreadofhim,to Thales at Miletus, to Bias at Priene, two of the Sages, and to all the Cities thereabout -, many in all thofe parts commending the young man, made him famous, calling him ^ a Proverb, fThe Sa¬ mian Comer] or, CThe fair-hair’d Samian.]
About this time began the tyranny t?/ Polycrates, when Pythagoras eighteenyears oldfforefee- ing the event, and howobjlruHive it would probe to his defigns, and to the purfuit of Learning)
which he intended above all things, L(mJ being (m) Laert, young, and, defirous of knowledge, left his Coun¬ try to go to travel] foie away privately by night, [ f
taking with him ^cxxnoAama'i, (frnamed Oceio- phylus, anddefeended, as was reported, from that Creophylus, zohoivas Hof to )Aointv) and .made a voyage to Pherecydes, fat Lisbus, to whom, , , Laert im faith, he was recommended by his Un- cle Zoilus~\ and to Anaximander, the naturalPhi- lofopher, rfW/tz Thales zzt Miletus. With each of '.i
thefe he converfedfeverally in fuch manner, that . •
they all lov'd him, admired his parts, and commu¬ nicated their learning to him. \l(n) Under Ana- (”} ximander the Mile fan, he is faid to have ftudied the knowledge of natural things] Thales enter- tairid hi7n kindly, and, wondring at his excel¬ lency above other youths,which much furpaffed the ;,;y
report he had received, afjifed him as far , as he ... * was able in Sciences -, withal, accufng his own age and infrinity, he advifedhimto make a voy- ' age to Egypt, there to get acquaintance wkh the .
Priefs f lAtmphis and {o)\b\ofyo\h,,fnceof{l>)Thtlesf>' them he had learned thofe things, for which he ^ . y-y
was by many efeemed wife, tho" he were not of fuch forwardnefs, neither by nature or education, yp
as he faw Pythagoras to be. Whence he pre- . .v faged, that, if he converfed with thofe Priefs, he fhould become the mof Divine and Wife ft of , . '
Men.
This Pherecydes fell fick at Delus : That he out¬ lived not the hfty-feventh Olympiad, is manifeft from a {p) Letter which he writ the day before his death to Thales, who died the firft year of fpidetisi the Olympiad following. And tho’ the greater part of Authors write, that at the fame time, when the Cylonians in Crotana, confpir’d agffinft bciz Pythagoreans, which was not long before - ■
Pythagoras died ) Pythagoras was gone fpom L taly to Delus, to vilit and bury Pherecydes, yet Dicaarebus and other more accurate Authors (faith * Porphyrius ) averr, that Pythagoras was » Pag. 3I* prefent when that confpiracf broke forth-, and that Pherecydes died before Pythagoras departed . , , from Samus. The former relation hath impofed, ’ .. [ among others, f upon the learned Salmaf us, who, prm.axidu to reconcile this with other circumftances con¬ cerning Pherecydes, is conftrain’d to imagine another perfon of the fame name. It was there¬ fore before Pythagoras left Samus, that Phe- pj
recydes, being dejperatcly feizedbya Phthiricfs, 10,11. he went to vifit him, and attikded him in his Jam. cap, 3^ ficknefs until he died, and then performed the^l^^r rites oj funeral, as to his Mafler. For Laertius ^ ' and Porphyrius add, that after the death and burial of Pherecydes, he returned to Samus, out
of a defire to enjoy the fociety of^zxxmAavsizs>,
(r) Phavorinus, in the feventh Book of his va- (r) lofrt, • rious Hiftory, and (s) Porphyrius, relate, that ;
after he had lived a while with Hermodamas, he firft taught Wreftlers, and of them Eurimenes, to diet with flefh , ( whereas other W reftlers ufed to eat dry’d Figs, Cheefe-curds, and Whey) whereby he became Viftor at the Olympick Games. But Laertius and (t) Jamblichus obferve, Q,p. 5; that this is falily aferibed to Pythagoras the 5a- mian, (for he allowed not the eating of flefh) . '
but was indeed the invention of fon
of Eratocles, of whom hereafter.
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