Life of Pythagoras ... Accompanied by fragments of the ethical writings of certain Pythagoreans in the Doric dialect; and a collection of Pythagoric Sentences from Stobaeus and others, which are omitted by Gale in his Opuscula mythologica, and have not been noticed by any editor / Translated from the Greek.

  • Iamblichus, approximately 250-approximately 330
Date:
1818
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Credit: Life of Pythagoras ... Accompanied by fragments of the ethical writings of certain Pythagoreans in the Doric dialect; and a collection of Pythagoric Sentences from Stobaeus and others, which are omitted by Gale in his Opuscula mythologica, and have not been noticed by any editor / Translated from the Greek. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sources of very high antiquity; and where the sources are unknown, there is every reason to be- lieve, from the great worth and respectability of the biographer, that the information is perfectly accurate and true. Of the biographer, indeed, Iamblichus, it is well known to every tyro in Platonism that he was dig- nified by all the Platonists that succeeded him with the epithet of divine; and after the encomium passed on him by the acute Emperor Julian, “ that he was posterior indeed in time, hut not in genius, to Plato,” 1 all further praise of him would be as 1 Οίδα μεν ουν και ΧΙλατωνα τον μεγαν, και μετά τούτον avbpa tois ^povois μεν, ον τρ μην φύσει, KdTabooaTepov, τον Χαλ/αέεα ψημι τον Ιάμβλιχον, κ. λ. Julian. Orat. IV. Thus too the celebrated Bullialdus, in his Notes on Theo of Smyrna, speaks of iamblichus as a man of a most acute genius.