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- ε1003ἘμπεδοκλῆςEmpedocles, Empedokles… as a female through "Doxa". [3] See Wright (1981) 283. Pythagoras and his followers, including E., disapproved of animal sacrifices. The Olympia reference resulted from the confusion between Empedocles with his grandfather the Olympic …
- ε1002ἘμπεδοκλῆςEmpedokles, Empedocles… 224. [3] FGrH 260 F22. [4] "Later tradition assigned to Pythagoras a son Telauges and then attempted to establish Empedocles as a successor of Pythagoras by citing this Telauges as his teacher" (Wright 1981: …
- ε3504ΕὐθύδημοςEuthydemos, Euthydemus… clear that Apollonius was particularly interested in the teachings of Pythagoras, but that Euxenos was not an effective teacher.
- ε555Ἐκ παντὸς ξύλουout of every timber… is in Apuleius, who puts it in the mouth of Pythagoras: non enim ex omni ligno, ut Pythagoras dicebat, debet Mercurius exsculpi (Apuleius, Apologia 43). It is an allusion to the fact that the …
- ε575Ἔκπλεαcomplete (ones)… form, but perhaps a distant memory of Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras 5.21: logisa/menos o(/ti eu)peiqh= e(/cei, ei) ta\ e)pith/deia e)/kplea/ tis au)tw=| a)merimnou=nti pare/xoi. [3] Aelian fr. 145 Domingo-Forasté (142 Hercher).
- ε2048Ἐπελπίζωνcausing to hope… for at least part of the information. The subject is Pythagoras, the tyrant of Ephesos.
- ε1567Ἐξάρτυσιςequipment… of Philo of Byzantium and later in Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras 25.114; but it occurs again in Byzantine historians such as George Pachymeres and Theophanes the Confessor. For the equivalence with paraskeuh/, compare a …
- ε3309ἘτησίαιEtesian [winds], yearly [winds]… what now follows appears, almost identically, in a Life of Pythagoras in Photius, Bibliotheca 441a34-b6. [3] cf. pi 1747.
- ε360ἙκαταῖοςHekataios, Hecataeus… with Hekataios of Abdera (epsilon 359); alternatively, emend 'Protagoras' to Pythagoras (cf. Adler's apparatus); but see the comments of Jacoby FGrH ad loc. [4] cf. phi 214. [5] Taken to be a mistake, both …
- ε2824Ἐποχήcessation, suspension; epoch… entry (which Adler suggested might be from a Life of Pythagoras), deals with e)poxh/ as an astronomical term; see LSJ s.v. III.2.a. [3] The list of seven 'planets' (including the sun and moon) which …
- ε3510ΕὔθυμοςEuthymos, Euthumos, Euthymus… to see. Euthymos, a Locrian from Zephyrium, dedicated [the statue]. Pythagoras, a Samian, made [the statue]." The anacolouthon from "I" to "he" perhaps resulted from changes introduced in the inscription to remove the fact …