Part IX4

^aoddn inQinble Dift^rcs, DeflruElion of Fruit, :TranfmilFon of Peftilence from Country to ‘.Country. By thefe difficult irremediable Caufcs, ‘ fie endeavoured to prove, that there is a Divine ‘^Providence, which over-ruleth all hitman Hope ‘Cand Power. But fhalaris impudently oppofed ‘ it. Hereupon Tythagorat^ knowing that that fDay would be tatal to Vhalark^ fpoke very ‘ freely ^ and looking upon Aham^ faid, That ‘ there is a paffage from Heaven to the^ Aerial ‘ and Terreftrial parts^ and did likewife Difcourfe ‘ fcientifically, concerning the dependance of all ‘ things upon Heaven, and did irrefragably de- ‘ monflrate the free Power of the Soul , and- ‘ proceeded to Ihew the perfed Operation of ^ the Reafon, and of the Mind. Then he fpoke ‘boldly concerning Tyranny, and all excefs of . ^ Fortune, ail Injuftice, all Covetouffiefs, ftrong- : ‘ly maintaining that they are ail nothing worth. ‘ After this, he made a Divine Exhortation con- ^ cerning the beft Life, and made a refolute Op- ' pohtion againft the worff, and did moft plainly ‘deliver the Dodrir^p, concerning the Power ‘ and PalFions of the Soul ; and which was more ‘ than all thefe, he demonftrated, that the Gods ‘are not the caufes of Ills-, and that Difeafes ‘ and Paffions are Seeds of the Intemperance of ^ the Body ^ and reprehended Mythographers and ‘ Foets for iuch things as they had fallly deliver- ‘ ed^ and fharply reproved Ph^/^7;'A, andfbewed ‘ what the Power of Heaven is, and how great, ‘ by its Operations, As concerning Inflidtion of ‘ Punifiiment by Law, he gave many inftances ‘■.thereof, and clearly fhewed the difference be- ‘ twixt Man, and other living Creatures. Fle ‘likewife fcientifically difcourfed concerning ‘ intrinfical and enunciative Reafon, and concern- ‘ ing the Mind, and the Knowledge proceeding ‘ from it, with many other moral Documents ‘ dependent thereon. He treated of what things ‘ are nfefulin Life, making an Exhortation to the ‘ purfuit of the ufe'ful, and dehorting from the ‘ hurtful- and that which is- moft of all, he made ‘ a diftinaion between the things done according ‘ to Fate, and according to the Mind, and of thofe ‘ which are done according to Neceffity, and ‘ according to Decree. Moreover he difcourfed ‘.concerning Damons^ and the Immortality of ‘ the Soul, much and wifely -, whereof we fhall ‘ have occafion to fpeak elfewhere, and .fhew, ‘ that thefe things do conferr moft to fortitude, ‘ feeing that he himfelf in the midlt of all Dan- ‘ gers,, did witli a conllantmind difcourfe Philo- ‘fophy, and arm himfelf againft Fortune • as al- ‘ fo for that fiq flighted aud contemned the Per- ‘Ton that attempted to hurt him, and defpifed ‘ the fear of Death, and all human Gontingen- ‘ cies, nor was he at that infiant any thing con- ‘ cerned for them. Indeed (continues Jamblichus). ‘ it is manifeft, that he was nothing troubled ‘ vyith the fear .of Death, but had a far more no-- ‘ file defign, the freeing of Sicily from the Op-.
, ‘ preffion of Tyranny. That it was he who did ‘-it, is manifeft from the Oracle oi Apollo^ which ‘ declared, .That Vhalarh^. when his Subjefts ‘ grew better and. more Unanimous, fhould lofe ‘.his Authority V which they did at the coming ‘ of through his Exhortations and In-
‘ ftrufctions.^ But a clearer .Evidence hereof is ‘ from. the time : For that very day thatP^/z/or/r
‘ w-’ekt about to hr in^Vyth agorae and Albaris into .
‘ danger of Death, he was himfelf Slain. The ‘manner thus related by ^Tzetzes: It chanced chil. 6.^0^ ‘ that a Hawk purfued a great flight of Pigeons ;
‘ which P^ ‘ by him. Behold, Friends, how much an igno- ‘ ble Fear can do^ for if but one of all thefe Pi- ‘ geons would turn again, it would prefently give ‘ a flop to the Purfuer. This Speech an old Man ‘ that was prefent no fconer heard, when taking ‘ up a Scone he threw it at Fhalaris -, and tlie ‘reft following his Example, did th^ like. Some ‘ fay they Honed him to Death ^ others, that they ‘ put him into Chains, and wrapt him in a fiieet ‘ of Lead, wherein he died miferably.
To the LocrianSy befides Charondas and Ze- leucus^ already mentioned, he fent f Timarus f alfo, to make Laws for them. i54*
To- the Fheginenjes he fent upon the fame Em¬ ployment * Theatetus, Helicao/i, Arijlocrates * and Phytius.
Thus, as t Forphyrius faith, Pythagoras and t his Friends were a long time fo much admired in Italy^ th^many Cities committed themfelves to be governed by them.
CHAP. XVllI.
Wonders related of Him.
IF we may credit (faith (a) Forphyrus^ and («) Pag* from him (f) Jamblichus) what is related of w Cap* him, by ancient and creditable Authors, his Commands had an Influence even upon irratio¬ nal Creatures , for he laid hold of the Daunian Bear, which did much hurt to the People there¬ about,- and having Ilroaked her awhile, and given her Maza and Fruits, and Sworn her, that She never more touch any living Creature, he let her go. She ftraightway hid her felf in the Hills and Woods, and from thenceforward nc-. ver alfaulted any living Creature.
Seeing an Ox atT^ir in grew feveral things, efopping green Beans, ^ he came to the Neat-herd, and counfelled him to fpeak to tlieOx, that he fhould abllain from the Beans. But the Neat-herd mocking him, and faying, He could not fpeak the Language of Oxen ^ he himfelf went to him, and whifpering in the Ear of the Ox, he not only refrained im¬ mediately from Beans at that time, but from thenceforward would never touch any, .and li¬ ved many years after about Juno\ Tehaple at Tarentum^ till he was very old ; and was (^atledf the facred Ox, eating fuch Meats as every , one gave him. ' ’
An Eagle flying over his head at the Olj^mpick Porpfy.pag.i6i Games, as he was by chance difeourfing to. his / friends conce:rning Auguries and Omens, ' .and dl-j l^rine Signs, and that there ^are fome hiellag^;, from the C^ds to fuch Men as have true Pietyi towards them •, He is faid 1(c) by certainWordsto (fp PHUh^ have ftopt here, and'] to have caufed her to com^tn^ . down ; and after he had ftroaked her awhile, fle " let her go again. This perhaps was that white • -
f a gle, which reports he ftrpaked at j ^ Croto, and She endured it quietly. For thb Cro^ . ' ‘ '
'^nians inibitntQd Games, .which they called. plympi