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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    however, it is, as I have before observed, a most in- teresting work ; and the benefits are inestimable, which the dissemination of it is calculated to pro- duce. And as two of the most celebrated critics among the Germans, Kuster and Kiessling, have given two splendid editions of this work, it is evi- dent they must have been deeply impressed with a conviction of its value and importance. As to the Pythagoric Ethical Fragments, all eulogy of them is superfluous, when it is considered that, independently of their being written by very early Pythagoreans, they were some of the sources from which Aristotle himself derived his consum- mate knowledge of morality, as will be at once evi- dent by comparing his Nicomachean Ethics with these fragments. /