Part IX»^

Tp thefe two Sons, add, ( upon the authority DaHs the Samian, in his lecond Book of . j^i„i„ejius, Mafterto Democritus^ who
returning from banifhnient, fufpendcd a hiazen Tablet in the Temple of Ju/20, the Diameter whereof was nigh two cubits, bearing this In- fcription
Me A^imneflus, who much learning trac'd,
Pythagoras Son here plac'd.
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His' Dvlifghters were Sara, Muya, Arignota, .W.?, ( whofe, Py'tha^brieal Wiutings Forphyrius men- ttn'thuid.iJm. tioncth.as extant in hi;^time) and (in) Dam : With ^ • her, '^thaloras leftihis Writings at his death,
dfarghig' her not to communicate them to any that v^ere not-within the '-Farhily. Whereupon Ihe, though liie might have had much money for the Books, wouM not accept, preferring poverty, with obedience to her father’s command, before ' - V riches. One of his Dmghters Fythagoras gpete in Mafr'iageto7Jl(?/Vr?of Crotona, whom he had edu¬ cated IpAvell, that when a Virgin, ftie wentfore- moft in the company of the Virgins ; and when a Wife,foremofl among the married Women. The Crotonians made of her Houfe a Temple to Ceres : The ftreet they called Mufdium.
Of his Servants are particularly remembred til) Forp.f). y.two,AJir£usatid Zamolxis : Ofthefirfl:,thus{/?J Diogenes, in his Treatife of incredible things be¬ yond Mnejarchus being ^Tyrrhenian, by
extraff of thofe who inhabited Lm-
nus, hnber and Scyrus, went from thence, and tra¬ velled to many Countries and Cities, found an In¬ fant lying under a large tall Poplar, and coming to it,he perceiv’d that it Isy with the face towards the sky, looking fteadfaftly upon the Sun without winking. In its mouth was put a little llender Reed like a Pipe. And feeing, to his great won¬ der, that the Child was nourilhed with the drops thatdiftill’d from the Tree, he took the Child a- way, believing it to be of a Divine race. This Child when he grew up, was entertain’d by Androcles, a native of that Country, who adopted him into his own Family, and committed the management of his affairs to'histrulf. afterwards
growing very rich, brought up the Child, naming him Aftraus, together with his own three Sons, Eunoflus,Tyrrhenus,nndFythagorai: Which boy, as I Paid, being yet very young, adop¬
ted his Son.- He put the Boy to a Lutenift, a Wreftler, and a Painter^ but as foon he was grown up, he fent him to Miletus to Anaximan- der,to learn Geometry and Aftronomy. Mnefar- ■ chus gzve Aflrieus to Fythagorctf, who receiving him, and confidering his Phyfiognomy, and exa-: mining the motions and reftings of his Body, In- ftruHed him. For he firfi; found out the way of difeerning the nature of every Man •, neither did he entertain any as his Friend or Dilciple, before he had examined by Phyfiognomy his Difpofition.
He had likewife.another Servant whom he eh- tertained in Thrace, named Zamolxk, for that as foon as he was born, they wrapped him in a Bear’s skin, which skin the Thracians call Zal- mus whom affefling, Inftruded in
fublime Speculations, and concerning facred Rites, and the Worfhip.of the Gods. Some affirm, he was called Thales. The Barbarians w^orfliipped him initead of Hercules. Dionyfiphanes faith„ he
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was fervanf to Fythagorai', and falling, into the . hands of Thieves, and being branded by them, wheri Fythagorae was difturbed by feiitious fa£lL- ons, and banilhed, he bound his forehead about becaiile of the fears. Some fay, that the name Zamolxis fignifies a ftrange Perfon. Hitherto Diogenes To this Zamolxis (faith Laertius) the Getes Sacrifice, as Herodotus relates, con¬ ceiving him to be Saturn. But (0) Herodotus x.ib. 4; having, delivered the Tradition of the Grecians,^
(that he ferved Pythagoras at Samus, bought out Jiis Freedom at a great rate, and returning to his Country, reformed their manners) concludes ..i v
with his pwn Opinion, that Zamolxis Xvted many years before Pythagoras. *
CHAP. XXII.
His Writings.
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Some there are who hold, that Pythagoras left .
not any thing in Writing-, of this Opinion ' ‘
are (a) Plutarch, {b ) Jofephus, (c) Lucian, ( a) De vitt. ( if) Laertius faith, that all fuch as affirm he wrote ^ libfi. ' nothing, do but jeft^ for Heraclitus the Natu- (cj'De'Lapl) ral Philofopher faid exprefly of him, Pythagoras inSalut.
Son of Mnefarchus was skilful in Hillory above .
all Men^ and felefting thofe Writings, niade up his own wifdom, and variety of learning and art. fin.
To which citation perhaps, (g) Clemens Alexan- (T) K«wo7iv-
drinus referrs, who faith, HeraclitusheinglaXer
than Pythagoras, mentioneth him in his Wri-gJ^j vafra^.
tings. The BooTs attributed to him are thefe.
times .takenin
in a good fenfei. Greg, Nar^. adv. /«/. Orat. 3. stw id «Vb/ pi^ei^eu aI- yovTcw^ dv^^eo^huv Ttvd J'i?i.ietSlJLd7uV
yav T87®/f AKisnovTcut the Texc being fo to be reftorta. (g) Strom*
(h) Three T reatifes, Padeutick, Politick, Ph)p ph J laerp Jick, to which Laertius referrs the forefaid Tefti- \ .;'0
mony of Heraclitus, fbralmuch as Pythagoras, in the beginning of his Phyfical Treatiie, faith. No, by the air which I breathe no, by the water which \
I drink, IJhall not (i) bear the blame of thk Dif '
courfe. *preters bofh«*
(k) Six Treatiles, reckoned by Heraclides,^onwtt\'idk. :"f, of Serapion, in his Epitome of Solion, thus One CkJ Ixorti concerning the Univerfe in Verfe. The fecond In- I
tituled. The facred Dif courfe, beginning thus :
Toung Men in filence entertain all thefe.
CTo the fame perhaps belongs this;
Wretchcd,thrice wretched,Beans forbear to cat, Your Parents heads as well may be your meat.
(1) And this cited by Eujiachius-,
(0 iQ Iliad. 2l
Which way to Orcus fouls defeend which way Return, and the Sail’s chearful light fifrvey.3
The third, of the Soul. The four th,'of Piety.
Tho iiXth,Helothales, Father of The
fixth, Crotona, and others. 1
Tvyo Treatifes, a Difeourfe concerning Na- %
ture, and another concerning the gods ; (m) both ^m) ^
which '