Part IX.

p rr H A 6 0 R J S.
CHAP. III.
Hoto be travelled to Phcenicia.
(tf) Jmh.cxi. (tf)TTAving learn’d o^Thalee above all things 13. JljL to husband his time, and for that reafon
■ forbearing wine and flefli, and having before re¬
frained from eating much, and accuftomed ffira- i felf to fuch meats as were light and ealie of
i digcftion, by which means he procur’d a habit
of watchfulnefs, clearnefs of mind, and an exaft conftant health of body j he made a voyage to Sidon, as well out of a natural defire to the place it felf, efteeming it his Country, as conceiving that he might more eafily pafs from thence into
I :^£ypf-
Here he conferred with the Prophets, fucceflbrs I of Mocus the Phyfiologift, and with others, and
' with the Phcenician Priefts, and was initiated into
allthemyfteriesof zxi^Tyre^ and fundry (h) Reading of the (^) principal faefed Inftitutions in divers 1 ^ other parts of not undergoing thefe things
out of Superftition, as may be imagined ^ but out of love to knowledge, and a fear, left any i : thing woftliy to be known, which was preferved
' amongfl: them, in the miracles or myfteries of
the gods, might eicape him. Withal, not being ignorant, that the rites of thofe places were de¬ duced from the Egyptian ceremonies, by means whereof he hoped to participate of the more fub- i lime and divine myfteries in Egypt, which he
j purfued with admiration, as his Mafter Thales
had advifed him.
CHAP. IV.
Hm he travell d te Egypt.
(rt) Mariners palling accidental-
gmmpcth, ly along that coaft, which lyes under Car¬
mel, (a Ehcenician mountain, where he fpent much of his time in private retirement at the Temple ) willingly received him into their Ship. But obferving,during the voyage, how temperate¬ ly he liv’d, keeping his ufual diet, they began to have a greater efteem for him. And perceiving . (bme things in the excellency of his demeanour,
more than human, they refteded within them- ' felves, how that he appeared to them as foon as
they landed, coming down from the top of the. mountain Czmi?/, (which they knew to be more faa*ed than other Hills, and not trod upon by the vulgar) ealily and direclly, neither ftones for . precipices obftruffing his palTage ■, and how that *Fot ftlwm coming to the fide of the Ship, * he asked, Whe- , ther they were bound for Egypt and they an-
That they were, he went into the Veffel, w&ntiKv filcntly fitting down in a place, where he might
I ^ difturb the Mariners, in cafe theylhould be I tctWzufj^inany ftrefs, continued in the fame pofture two nights and three days,without meat, drink,orfleep,* * ' ^xcept when none perceived he flumbred a little,
fitting in the fame unmovable pofture, and this I conftantly to the end) and how that the voyage
proceeded , di reft, beyond their expectation, as if aflifted by theprefence of fome god. Laying all thefe things together, they concluded and perfwa- ded themfelves, that fome Divine Genius did in-
^ed come along with them from Syria to Egypt,
The reft of the voyage they performed profpc- roufly, obferving a greater refpeft than formerly in their words and a8:ions,as well to one another, as towards him, until they at laft arrived upon the coaft of Egypt, by a moft fortunate palTage, without any ftorm.
As foon as he landed, they reverently took him up, and feating him on the cleaneft part of the Sand,rear’d an extemporary Altar before him, on which they laid part of all the forts of provifions which they had, as the firft-fruits of their lading, and drew up their Veffel in the fame place, where they firft put to Sea. Pythagoras, tho* weakned with long falling, was not fick, either at his land* ing, or by their hahding of him ■, nor did he, when they were gone, abftain long from the fruits which they had laid before him, but took them, and preferved his conftitution therewith undifturbed, till he came to the next houfes.
(b) From thence he went to fearch after all the(^) cap. 4. Temples with diligent and exaft inquifition.
(c) Antiphon, in his Book concerning fuch as(c)Proph)t\vk, were eminent for virtue, extolleth his perfeve- Pythag. pag. 5. ranee when he was in Egypt, faying, Pythagoras dejigning tobecome acquaintedwiththeinftitution ’ of the Egyptian Priefts, and diligently endeavour¬ ing toparticipete thereoj,deJired Polycrates theTy- rant to write to Araafis King of Egypt, with whom he hadfriendfhip, (as appears alio by (d) Uerodo- (d) Lib. 3*
tt^) and ho/pitality, (tovmerly) that he might be admitted to the aforefaidToldrine. Coming to k- " V ' mafis, Amafis gave him Letters to the Priefts, and going firft to thofe of Heliopolis, they fent him to the Prieft of Memphis, as the more ancient, which was indeed hut a pretence of the Heliopolitans :
C (e) For the Egyptians imparted not their my- ckmAtex, fterics to every one, nor committed the know- strom, ledge of Divine things to profane perfons, but to thofe only who were to inherit the Kingdom j and, of Priefts, to thofe who were adjudged to excel the reft in education, learning, and defeent. j from Memphis, upon the fame pretence, he was fent to Thebes. They not daring, for fear of the King, to pretend excufes but thinking, that by reafon of the greatnefs and difficulty thereof, he would defift from the defign, enjoyned him very hard precepts, wholly different from the inftitu- tion of the Grecians, which he readily performed, to theirfo great ddmiration, that they gave him power to facrifice to the gods, and to acquaint him- felf with all their ftudies, which waps never known to have been granted to any forreigner befides.
(f) Clemens Alexandrinus relates particularly (/) strom. u that he was difciple to SgnchQdes, an Egyptian Arch-prophet.
(g) Diogenes faith, that whilft he lived with (g) Porph.^. 8. thefe Priefts, he was inft rubied in the Learning and Language (as Antiphon alCo affirms) of the Egyptians, and in their thre^ kinds of writing, E- piftolick,Hieroglyphick, dzz^SymboJick^ there¬ of one imitates the common way of fpeaking -, the
reft allegorical, (h) a-)clm.Ahr.
taught Dythe Egyptians, learn nrit the method lib. 5. of all the Egyptian Letters, which is called Epi- ftilographick ■, the fecond, liieratick , ufed by thofe who write of Sacred things^ the laft and moft perfeft Uieroglyphick, whereof one is Curio- logickfoe other, Symbolick. Of the Symholick, one is properly fpoken by Imitation , another is
written
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written as it were Tropically •, another on the con¬ trary doth allegorize by jTinigms. For inftance, in the Kyriologick way, to exprefs the Sun, they make a Circle ^ the Moon, a Crefeent. Tropically they do properly traduce, and transfer, and ex¬ prefs by exchanging fome things, and varioully transfiguring others. Thus when they deliver the praifes of Kings,” in Theological Fables , they write by Anaglyphicks. Of the third kind, by Mnigms.y let this be an example : All other Stars, by reafon of their oblique courfe, they likened to the bodies of Serpents,^ but the Sun to ■ that oi z. Beetle., becaufe having formed a ball of Cow-dung, and lying upon its back, it rolls it about ;( from claw i.to claw. ) They fay more¬ over^ that this creature liveth fix months under ground, '^ind the other half of the year upon the earth ; add that it immits feed into the Globe (of the- earth), and fo generates, there being no w female of that'Xpecies.: Hitherto C/m(?/?x.
.qb Th\\%- {b) bting acquawted with the learning
of that 'Nation^ and enqiciring into the Comment a- ' riec of the Priefis of former tunes., he knew, the ‘ ' obfervations of innumerable Ages, as Valerius
AlaximusXAth.And. (i) living admir'd andhelovd 4. continuing, pf a/lxhe,Priefls and Prophets with whom he con- verfedy he informed Irimf elf by their means accu- ratekyyconeerning every thing-, not omitting any perfon, eminent at that time for learning, or any kind: of religiom rites ^ nor leaving any place unfeen,. by going into which he conceived that he pk) Laert. flight f/idfomething extraordinary, f For {k) he Cl) Strom. I. Adyta of the Egyptians, and, as (1)
Clemens, faith, permitted himfelf to that end to be cii'cnmcifed ) and learned things not to be cominunicated concerning the gods , myftick Philofophy.q He travelled to all the Priejis, and watt inji rubied by every one, in that wherein they were particularly learned. In he lived
1 wenty-two years, in their Pri vate Sao’ed Places , Jludying Aitronomy a/?!/ Geometry, and zoatt ini¬ tiated ( not curforily or cafually)into all the reli giousMyferiesoftheGods.
Laertius faith. He made three Cups of fiver, and prejented them to each f Society^ of the_^ E- gyptian Priefs which, as we faid, were three, oi'Heliopolis, Memphis, iznd Thebes. ^
pag. 302.
CHAP. V.
‘ How he went to Babylon.
{a}ohmp. (a) A Alafis dying inthe thirdyear of the Ex-
ty-third Olympiad, ( which was the 223d. of Nabonajfer ) his fon Pfamminitus fuc- ceeded him, who is by Crefias named Amijineus, fb ) lib. and feems to be the fame whom (b) Pliny calls ^cT)V(her An- (tho'’ {c) others interpret it of A-
ml. 4167. tnafis) in whofe Reign, faith he, Pythagoras was in Egypt. At this time Cambyfs invaded and con- (d) Jam. cap. quered Egypt, {d) by whom Eqthz^oxAs was taken 4* prifoner, andfenttoBshfow. There he lived
C(c) with the molt excellent among the Chal- ' deans, and] with the Magi, the Per fan Magi,
(f) de finib. 5. (fo’: io (7) Cicero, (g) Apuleius, and (h) Eu-
(g) Florid. 2. febius ttxm them) in refpeft that Babylon was
(h) Prxp. loi [ben under that Monarchy ^ which is the meaning
lib.8.cap,7. of (f) Valeri US Maximus, and {k)LaUan-
flj llb!4.c.2! tius, who affirm, that he went from Egypt to the
Perfians, (not to Perfia, as (t) fome conceive) i
and refigned himfelf to the moji exaU prudence of the Magi to be formed. feft.' ' i
( m) The Alagi received him kindly, and in- (m) Jambt. ftrubied him in the mof profound and fublime my- continueth. feries of the Woifhip of the gods. By their v('.) means alfo he arrived at the heighth of hnthme- tick, Mufick, and other Mathematical Sciences. \
From them, faith (n) Valerius Maximus,- he, with jib 5; a docile mind, received the motions of the Stars, , \
their power, property, and effebls, (0) their fates (f)Apul.Florid, I and periods the various effebls of both in the na- tivities of men, as likewife the remedies of difeafes, \
which are purchafed at vafi rates by Sea and Land. . ■
Of the Chaldeans, with whorn he lived in Ba¬ bylon, (p) Diogenes ^avikuhrlj inftanceth Z’lz- C^) '
bratusfby whom he was cleanfedjrom the pollutions^ of his life paf, andinfruBed from what things . |
virtuous perfons ought to be free and learnt the difeourfe concerning Nature, (Phyhek) and what are the principles oj theUniverfe. Thh Zabratus was probably the fame with that Z or oaf res, one . ; ■ v :q oExhtPerfian Magi, whom, (q) Apuleius Edith, CqfslcAdiki he chiefly had for Teacher, terming him, Omnis j
divini. arcanum antifat em: And the fame with Mazaratus the AJfyrian, whom (r) Alexander, OJForpJyr.-F* in his Book of Pythagorick Symbols, affirms to have been Mafter to. Pythagoras the fame whom i
M Suidoi calls Zare^ Cyril, Zaran ; YlutarA,
Laratas : Whence (t) fome conceive, that they sddsn ' all mean Z or oaf res the Magus, who was alfo Diis Syris. ' [ called Zarades, as evidently appears from Theo- \
doret and Agathias. Indeed he could not hear Zoroafres himfelf, as being fome Ages later 3 ;
yet it appears from the relation of Apuleius, that j
many conceived Pythagoras to have been 'a fol¬ lower of Zoroafres. Perhaps him whofe do- Hrine Pythagoras embraced, (for {u') Clemens (n) Strm.Pri filth, explained Zoroaftres the Perflan Magus) pofterity believed to have been his Mafter. This Nazaratus the Adrian, was by fome fuppofed to be the Prophet which opinion Gemens . . ■
oppugns ; neverthelefs ( as Mr. Selden obferves) the moft accurate Chronology teacheth, tliat Ezekiel and Pythagoras flourilhed together, be¬ twixt the 50th and y2d. Olympiad 3 and there¬ fore the account of time hinders not, but that this Nazaratus might be Ezekiel.
(x) Diogenes (in his Treatife of incredible (*) pS things, beyond adds, that he went alfo 8*
to tliQ Hebrews, which (y) Lablantius exprefly O'J lib.4.c.2t . denies, (z) Eufebius faith, He‘ is reported to (0 Prapar. have heard the Perflan Magi, and the Diviners *3* ,
of the Egyptians, at what time fome of the Jews were gone to Babylon, others to Egypt. Xbat he converfed with the Jews at Babylon, (faith the .
(a) Bifliop of Armagh) may be argued, for that faj AaoaluC
he transferred many of their Dodrines into his n. -y
PhiloEofAY Nermippus dzdaxo^ in his firft
Book of things coxictxxiing Pythagoras, cited by
(b) Jofephus and in his firft Book of Law-gi- (byconaiA^ vers, cited by ( c) Origen, which likewife is con- pm. lib. i. , t«
■ firmed by (d ) Ari jiobulus tht Jew, a Peripatetical G) Contra. Philofopher, in his firft Book to Philometor-, who cdj'cUm^' moreover was induced by the fame reafon to be- strom. i. Em- lieve,that the Books of Mofes were tranflated into feb. PrsEpar, ” Greek before the Perflan Empire 3 whereas it is ij* much more f probable, that Pythagoras receiv’d
that part of his Learning from the converfation |
which he had with the Hebrews.
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(e) Clem.Alex, Strom. 1.
(t)' AicjxaTtder adds^ ■ that he heard tiie Galata 2.t\dL ^^Brachmanes. Chaldea (faith leii^) bc mnt tq t})e Bracbinanes ^ i^fe are wife perjons.^ -a Natipn of India, fpr whu}freafon be went to their Gytnnfpphifis. Bracbmanes
conferred many things tp l^ Bhilpfophy j what are the documents of tehat the exercifes of
bodies., how many are the parts of the foul., horn
f^ppfy him with necpjjaries ; when they had done wajhiji^, be called him tohim^ and told him.. That he would continually furnifh him with all things, fufficient for hk maintenance, if he would learn briefly, and without labour, andconflantly (that he migm not be over‘burthened)fome MathematicAs, which he htmfelf, when he was young, had learned of the Barbarians, which had now left him, by rea^
ooMicr, uvw muujf vj jv/ njc U4I uaa now lejt nim,Dy rea^
many the vicifjitudes of Ufe\ what torments orxjon of old age and forgetfiilnefs. TbeTouthpro-
rewards, according to f heir, merits, are allotted to men after death. .
(f) Porfh. Diogenes add®, that he went alfo to Arabia,
and lived' with the King there ^ but it is not eafie to find tlie name of the Court of the King of that wandring \Nation. '
As concerning his Learning, itis generally faid,
(g) Clmtt learnedimany, and thoje the mofl ex-
o 8 cellent parts of hk-fhilofophy, of the Barbarians.
Diogenes a^xms., he gained the greatefl part of his wfdomfrom thefe Nations, (t) Ihe Scien- j ^ ces which are called Mathematical, he learnt of the Egyptians, and the Chaldeans,andthe?hcenicians for the Egyptians were of old fludioi^ of Geome¬ try the Phoenicians, tf numbers and proporti¬ ons-, /&^ Chaldeans, of Agronomical Theorems, divine rites, and worjhip of the gods and other inflitutions concerning the courje of life, he learn¬ ed and received of the Magt. Thefe are more generally known, as being committed to writing but the refl of his inflitutions are lefs known. ^)Jofeph,con- (^k) Hermippus faith, He embracedthe opinions mi i ron. lib. Thracians-, which (i) fome interpret of
ih VofSut de whofe Father liyrrhadiue was of that
PMoC Seft. Country : But with more reafon may it . be un- ap. tf.fcft.2. derftood of Orpheus, from whom famblichus ac- knowledgeth, that he derived much of the The-, ological part of his Science.
famhLc. 2., {forche Chap*
CHAP. VI.
Hiw he returned to Samus.
Aving lived at Babylon twelve years, he re-
_ -turned to Samus, Cfor that he was re-
w arc ill di- deemed by one Gyllus Prince of Crotona, Apuleius
^ YQk creditable relation] about the ’ ^ fifty-fixth year of his age, where being known by
(fome. of the mofl ancient perfons, be was looked upon with greater admiration than before, for he feemed to-them more wife, more beautiful, and \ more, divinely majeflick. Hk Country fummoned ^ jyim to fme publick employment, that be might 'benefit the generality^ and communicate hk know- ■ ledge : Which he not refufing, endeavoured to in- firuH them in the fymboiical way of learning,alt6- ^ether ref embling that of the Egyptians, in ^hich '^hehimfelfbaibeeninflituted. But the Samians affeSing thk way, did not apply themf elves to him. * PythagoraSj/ft^?’ he faw that no man came to him, or Jincerely affeSedhk learning, endeavoured never - thelefs all poflible txiays to continue amongji them, not defpijing or undervaluing Samus, becaife it was hk ^untry. And whilft he was very defirous that hk Country-men fhould tafteyhd' againfl their .wills, the fweetnefs of hk Mathematicks, heob- fervedina G'jmua^\\m,a young man that plafd at Tennk dexteroufly and nimbly, but other wife poor and indigent: And imagining that thkTouth would .fjt wholly guided by him, if without labour he fhould
mifing, and being allured by the hopes of mainte¬ nance, he endeavoured to initiate him in Arith- metick andGeometry, drawing the demonftration of each in a Table -, and teaching him, he gave the ■ young man for every Scheme ( or Diagram) thrctt Oboli, as a rewar dand epmpenfation. And thk he continued to do a long time, out of a love of glory, and induflrioufly bringing him into the Theory by anexaQ. method. But when the young man, having made a good progrefs,was fenjible of the excellency, both of the pleafure and the confequences in Ma¬ thematicks, the wife man perceiving it, and that he would not now quit hk learning, what incon¬ venience foeverhe might fuffer,pretended, that he had no more Trioboli to give him. ‘ ’"ns no matter,
‘faith the youth, I am able to learn^and receive ‘ your Arithmeticks without it. HerepUed, ‘But ‘ I have not fufficient to find food for my felf,
‘ wherefore I mult now give over, to acquire nc- ‘ cefiaries for every day, and daily food •, nor is ‘ it fit now'tobe taken up with Tables and fruit- ‘ lefs Studies. Whereupon the young man, loth to ‘ be hindred from continuing hk learning/epUed,
‘ I will fupply you, and in fome manner require ‘ you ; for I will give you for every Scheme ' three Oboli. And from thenceforward became fo much in love with Mathematicks, that he alone of all the Samians was commended with Pythago¬ ras, being like wife of the fame name, fon of Era* tocles. nk AleipcicR'Commentaries are extant, andhk direUions to the Wreftkrs of that time,
,to eat flefh inftead of dried Figs -, which Isy fome
are faljly aferibed to Pythagoras the fon of Mne-
farchus, fas is formerly intimated] but by >f-ijb.23.cap.7.
to one of that name, who profeifed Exercife.s of
the Body, which agreeth with the relation of
famblichus.
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CHAP. VII.
How he went to Dslus, Delphi, Creet, and SJiarta.
Not long after, according to the relation of
(a) famblichus, Pythagoras went De- ( las, where he was much admir'd by the Inhabi- 7* tants, for that he prayed only at the Altar of A- pollo Genitor, called (^) unbloody, Cwhich ftands Ch) elm, behind the horn Altar] (f) becaufe at it vvere 7* offered only Wheat, and Barley, and Cakes *
but no Victim, as Ariflotle faith, inhis*Trcatife concerning the GommonwealtlD ^ttd ap-
plied himfelf to none but the attendants thereof
from Deius, (d) famblichus faith, he went to all places of Oracle, (r} At Delphi he writ an E- 1 1. ‘ legy upon tfie Tomb of Apollo, whereby he dc- riO ^Reading dared, that Apollo was fon of Sitenus, hut {lain by ?ytho,an^ buried in the place called (f) Triops, f'-’l
whidi was fo named, for that the three daugh-^^^ iiu-
ters of Triopas mourned there for Apollo. At f
Delphi alfo ((g) Ariftoxemts ia\th) he learned 7{i-
many moral documents /?/Themifl:oclea.
He
nrvf. (i)
Part. 1X1
('ll J Lib. 20. (/) Cap. 5.
(0 Forphyr. p.
li.
fl J^/arph, p.
1 1.
(m) Laert,
(n) Lmt.
Nei.^iiir vvifs’Uri?/ leFs tarn qiis for Tcmo.i^^:s,;6c;iq^ ^ftcenle^rllteyiSlacJWhev^^^^ ter \vas.bQrq^ an^ bro^ghria^ by thcVombrns^ or Da^^f-gvicfo Civ^^of-ch;^
Mountaii^ which the^fo named after thit of P/;/j^ia/-whe\icc they' came.:;;. They hfid alfo a Tradkion, that Jupiter w.iis^ bnried there, and flicw’ddrU'Tomb. Here (ky?ythagora^:i ^ed-himfelf- to the Priefts oimorgus^. on6 -dPthe Id^an Da'^//, who purify’d him with tife z?;h;z~Stoae, '^tQ called, ■ in thaUt is conceived to he a. piece .of Thunderbolt, ahd ehere-
fore perl)aps ufed by his Prrelts J Inthe mo'rning he. lay ft retch’d foidh npqh his^ Face by 'the fide ; .at. night, by a Rt^er, Crown’d ''witlf a Wreath, rnade of the' Wooli of a^black Lamb'.^ ■
He ahb, apply M. hiipfelf to the Cretan Epi?heni- des, that Eminent SbuthFaybr, as- calls him. (0 He went L(j) down ] with him into the iJjiaa Give, wrapt inhlack Wooll, _ and ftay- ed there- three times nine days, according to the Cuftom - and to Jupiter^ md faw the'Throhe which is made yearly therefor him, and writ an Epigram upon his Tomb, beginning thus,: '
\
Here Zin. deceafed lyesj whom Jove they call.
Thus w'as he (n) initiated into all religious rites, .as well Grecian as Barbarian.
CHAP. VIII.
How he went to Olympia, and Phlius,
f *
(h) val. Max.* {a) A Fter he had made enquiry into the Laws jC^ and Cuftoms of Greet and Hacedjcmon.^ he went down to the Olympicks Games \ and ha¬ ving given a ^proof of his multiplicious Know¬ ledge, to the Adrniration ofallG/m^, being de¬ manded wha'this Appellation was, he aiifw'er’d, That he was not SophosJMi(b ^ (for excellent men had already poHefs’d that Nam^ but J’hiliJophos^ A lover of Wifdoin. ,
fbj Laert. in (^) relate this, as done at Sicyon., in Procem. * Difeourfe with Tyrant of that place - 0-
thers at Bhlii/s.^ diftant from Sicyon a hundred Cc) Laert ia h^rlongs. of the latter are fc) HeracUJes., in Vr^m. ' his Book of the breathlefs Woman ^ and (d)So- CdjLae)t.vir.Jicrates in his Succeffions. The Teftimony of w r Heraclides is thus delivered by {e') Cicero. He went (as is reported) to Fhlius, and difeourfed upon fome things learnedly and copioufly with Leo Prince of the Fhliafians. Leo admiring his Wit and Elot^uence, demanded in what Art he did moft cpnhde? ‘ He anfwered,Thathe knew ‘ no Arty 'but'was a Philofopher. Leo wondring , * at the Novelty of the Name, asked, Who 'were ‘ Philofophers, and what difference there is be- ‘ tween them and others ? Fythagorns anfwerecj, ‘That human Life feom’d to refemble that pub- ^ . ' ' lick Convention, which is celebrated with the
‘ Pomp and Games of all Greece. 'For, as there, , ; q iome by bodily Exercifesaim at the Glory and
' * Nobility of a Crown \ others are led away by , ^ Gain in Buying or Selling : But there is a certain
'^kin^cjf T(^To'ns, b(efter
C.;
f fert^’ Gr^y,other§ Richesi^bOn-
‘dy ^A^&ew'thefe arij'^'.Who de.fpiling all thhag^
^ elfqp ‘'ft\'l(^idiilly eti^^\ii\^ 'into' the Natuiie -of ‘ thin^. '‘''Th'efe he' c^aHl^ ’ Enqmrers after ‘ dom^ that is, Philofophers. ■ ' • ,>.> - va : ■
Tlnis,^' \^^eas LeaVhlftg^cbefore was calkc^*^^- phid., Wijdo’my andTlfe H^rBfeffors thehreof, v&?- phoi., Wije-men^ (k'i T-ha'fes and the reft, of w.hom we treated in the firft Book) Pphagoras^ by a more mbdeft Apellation, iiarhed it FhilqJ^hy.^ Laert.
Love bf Wifdom and its Profeftbrs, FbHtJophers ; Prooeoh' - 'q, conceiving the Attribute ofv' Wife not .tpDglong -‘' n-Y. to Men, blit to God 01% v thatwhich is proper- g f • ly tended Wifdom, b^ngffar above hgman Ca¬ pacity. ‘(f) ‘ For tho’- the frame of the whole (T’^J-ww.capl ‘ Heaven, aiid the Stsfr S-Which are carried about ‘• in it, if we confider theirv order, is fair yet is it fuch,^ but by Participation of the..pcimary ‘ Intelligible, who is a-Nature of Numbers and Proportions, diffufing it felf through the Uni- *■ verfe' according to which, all theie. things are ‘ ordered together, and adorn’d decently,
‘ dom therefore is a true Knowledge, canyerlant ‘ about- thofe fair things Which are firft, and • ‘ Divine, and Incommixt, and always the fame j ‘ by Participation whereof, we may call other things Fair. But Philofophy is an Imitation of ‘ that ■ Science, which likewife is an excellent' ‘Knowledge, and did affift towards the Refor-. :
‘ mation of Mankind.
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CHAP. IX.
How he lived at Samus.
(a) T T Aving been a diligent Auditor and Difci- XJL pie of all thefe, he returned home, and
earneftly addiffed himfelf to enquiry after fuch f, \ things as he had omitted ^ and firft, fas fooh as f ( lE,
he returned to Ionia'} (faith Antiphon, cited by '
(b) Forphyrim, repeated and enlarged by Jam~OJ ^S* ^ blicr^) he built fin his Country^ within the City,
a School, which even yetis called the Semicircle of Pythagoras, in which the Samians, when they would confult about publick Affairs, Afiemble ; chuling to enquire after things Honeft, Juft, and Advantageous in that place, which he, who took care of them all, haderefted. Without the Ci¬ ty he made a Cave, proper for his Study of Phi- loISphy, in which he lived for the moft part Day and Night, fand difeourfed with his Friends] and made enquiry into the moft ufeful part ’of Mathematicks, taking the fame courfe as Minos Son of Jupiter. And fo far did he lurpafs all whom he taught, that they for the fmalleft Theo¬ rems were reputed gi'eat Perfons.
Pythagoras now perfeffed the Science of the Celeftial Bodies, and over-run it, with all Ete- monftrations Arithmetical and Geometrical.
Nor this only, but he became much morefad- mir’d forthe Things he performed afterwards; for Philofophy had now received a great increafe, and all Greece began to admire him v arid ' the
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