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32 entries for Pythagoras

μ1363ΜυῖαMuia, Myia, Fly… Alexandria mentions mother and daughter at Stromata 4.19.121. Entries for Pythagoras appear at pi 3120, pi 3121, pi 3123, pi 3124.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2550Κοινὰ τὰ τῶν φίλωνthe property of friends is common propertycf. Zenobius 4.79, and see already kappa 2549. For Pythagoras see generally pi 3120.Matched in noteshighshort
α3872ἈριγνώτηArignote, Arignota… see again under theta 84 and pi 3120. [1] For Pythagoras see pi 3120, pi 3121, pi 3123, pi 3124. [2] For Theano see theta 83, theta 84.Matched in noteshighshort
η88Ἤδηby this time… scholia there. (Sophocles himself, of course, was not concerned with Pythagoras.) [7] A Trojan hero. [8] More probably Pyrrhus, as in Diogenes Laertius and elsewhere (see next note). [9] For the basic story of …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ1160ΜνήσαρχοςMnesarkhos, Mnesarchos, Mnesarchus… this name prompted this entry. See e.g. the father of Pythagoras (pi 3120).Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighmedium
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: …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3041Ἀπερίβλεπτονlimitless, incomprehensible… from its only extant appearance outside lexicography: Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras 29.162.Matched in noteshighshort
α3420ἈπολλώνιοςApollonios, Apollonius… "if indeed he died" (ei)/ge e)teleu/ta). [3] Diogenes Laertius 8.10 (Pythagoras). [4] Literally, "a biography befitting a philosopher." The formal title The Memoirs of Apollonios of Tyana is given as ta\ e)s to\n *tuane/a …Matched in noteshighlong
ε3504ΕὐθύδημοςEuthydemos, Euthydemus… clear that Apollonius was particularly interested in the teachings of Pythagoras, but that Euxenos was not an effective teacher.Matched in noteshighmedium
α295Ἀγονίαsterility… Aelian fr. 52f Domingo-Forasté (49 Hercher), from the story of Pythagoras, tyrant of Ephesus (pi 3122); cf. nu 195, pi 2518.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1617Δυσέξοιστονhard to carry out… both of the instances extant outside lexicography: Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras 48; Cyril of Alexandria, Against Julian 1.25.Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
α3505Ἀποροῦντιpuzzling… more probably, according to John Burnet, from a Life of Pythagoras.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1232Μόνον καὶ ἓν διαφέρειmonad and one differ… with the headword phrase, this quotation approximates the Life of Pythagoras in Photius, Bibliotheca 249.438b33-8. The Suda omits that part of Photius' entry attributing the distinction between noetic and aesthetic numbers to the followers …Matched in noteshighshort
α359ἌγριοςAgrios, Agrius… Aelian fr. 52c Domingo-Forasté (part of fr. 49 Hercher), on Pythagoras, tyrant of Ephesus. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 1035; again under delta 436.Matched in noteshighshort
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).Matched in noteshighshort
λ756Λοιμεύεταιis pestilent… [1] Tentatively attributed by Adler to an ancient Life of Pythagoras. For 'bad mixture' cf. under nu 495. For the term katastasis see kappa 788 -- but for the sense of it used here, …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2048Ἐπελπίζωνcausing to hope… for at least part of the information. The subject is Pythagoras, the tyrant of Ephesos.Matched in noteshighshort
ει143ΕἱμαρμένηfateFrom a Life of Pythagoras (in Photius, Bibliotheca 439b36-440a3). See also epsiloniota 142, epsiloniota 144.Matched in noteshighmedium
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
χ5Χάλαζαhail, hailstorm… the Lexica Segueriana, s.v. nifeto/s. Perhaps from a Life of Pythagoras (so Adler). [3] Aristophanes, Frogs 852 (Dionysus talking about Aeschylus), with comment from the scholia there. The negative ou)k is not in Aristophanes' …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3309ἘτησίαιEtesian [winds], yearly [winds]… what now follows appears, almost identically, in a Life of Pythagoras in Photius, Bibliotheca 441a34-b6. [3] cf. pi 1747.Matched in noteshighmedium
α2533ἌνθρωποςmanFrom an ancient Life of Pythagoras; cf. Photius, Bibliotheca 439a8-19. [1] Only three are explicitly flagged up; trei=s is also the figure in Photius; and Aemilius Portus emended to "three" here too. Nevertheless, a …Matched in noteshighmedium
α402Ἀγχίνουςtight-witted… see Louth (110, map). [3] From an ancient Life of Pythagoras (preserved in Photius' Bibliotheke); cf. mu 1155 (end), omicron 437.Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2873Ἀπαθῆimpassive, passionless… Damascius again (fr. 43 Zintzen) or from a life of Pythagoras (so Adler).Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2134ΚόσσαςKossas, Cossas… Casuentus, present-day Basento) which is said to have loudly addressed Pythagoras as he forded it (Aristotle fr. 191 Rose; Aelian, Varia Historia 2.26 and 4.17; etc.) Could "the words of Kos[s]as" refer to this? …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ97Γεγωνόνloud, sonorous… (of the noise of a river) in a Life of Pythagoras attributed to both Iamblichus and Porphyrius. [2] Entry so far also in Photius. If gegwni/skein is quoted from somewhere in this actual form, …Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighmedium

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