Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... to resume it with her clothes; when she was asked. What clothes, she said, Those which cause you to bn be called a woman." XXIII RIDICULING EPIGRAMS Now Pythagoras, according to Heraclides, the so son of Serapion, died when he was eighty years of ( age, according to his own account; by that of others, he was over ninety. On hi"i we have written a sportive epigram, as follows: "You are not the only man who has abstained Prom living food; for so have we;. And who, I'Id like to know, did ever taste Pood while alive, most sage Pythagoras? When rc'sat is boiled, or roasted well and salted; I do not think it well can be called living. Which, without scruple therefore then we eat it, And call it no more living flesh, but meat." Another, which runs thus: "Pythagoras was so wise a man, that he Never ate meat himself, and called it sin. Yet gave he good joints of beef to others; So that I marvel at his principles; Who others wronged, by teaching them to do What he believed unholy for himself." Another, which follows: "Should you Pythagoras's doctrine wish to know, Look on the centre of Suphorbus's shield. For he asserts there lived a man of old, And when he had no longer an existence. Ho still could say that he had been alive> Or else he would not still be living now." Wother one follows: "Alas! alas! why did Pythagoras hold Beans in such wondrous honor? Why, besides. Did he thus die among his choice companions? There was a field of beans; and so the sage, Died in the common road of Agrigentum, Rather than trample down his favorite beans. XXIV THE LAST PYTHAGOREANS He flourished about the sixtieth olympiad; and tois system laste for about nine or ten generations. DIOGEKES. LAEBTES BIOGRAPHX XXIV 175 The last Pythagoreans known to Ariatoxenus...
