IAMBLICHUS’ LIFE OF PYTHAGORAS, OR PYTHAGORIC LIFE.

ACCOMPANIED BY FRAGMENTS OF THE ETHICAL WRITINGS OF CERTAIN PYTHAGOREANS IN THE DORIC DIALECT; AND A Collection of Pythagoric Sentences FROM STOBÆUS AND OTHERS, WHICH ARE OMITTED BY GALE IN HIS OPUSCULA MYTHOLOGICA, AND HAVE NOT BEEN NOTICED BY ANY EDITOR.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK.

BY THOMAS TAYLOR.

Approach ye genuine philosophic few, The Pythagoric Life belongs to you: But far, far off ye vulgar herd profane; For Wisdom’s voice is heard by you in vain: And you, Mind’s lowest link, and darksome end, Good Rulers, Customs, Laws, alone can mend.

LONDON: PRINTED BY A. J. VALPY, TOOKE’S COURT, CHANCERY LANE; AND SOLD BY THE AUTHOR, 9, MANOR PLACE, WALWORTH. 1818.

Chap. I 1

Chap. II 2

Chap. III 9

Chap. IV 12

Chap. V 13

Chap. VI 18

Chap. VII 21

Chap. VIII 23

Chap. IX 28

Chap. X 32

Chap. XI 34

Chap. XII 38

Chap. XIII 40

Chap. XIV 41

Chap. XV 43

Chap. XVI 48

Chap. XVII 50

Chap. XVIII 56

Chap. XIX 66

Chap. XX 69

Chap. XXI 71

Chap. XXII 73

Chap. XXIII 75

Chap. XXIV 77

Chap. XXV 80

Chap. XXVI 83

Chap. XXVII 89

Chap. XXVIII 97

Chap. XXIX 114

Chap. XXX 122

Chap. XXXI 135

Chap. XXXII 151

Chap. XXXIII 162

Chap. XXXIV 170

Chap. XXXV 176

Chap. XXXVI 188

From Hippodamus, the Thurian, in his Treatise on Felicity 195

From Euryphamus, in his Treatise Concerning Human Life 202

From Hipparchus, in his Treatise On Tranquillity 207

From Archytas, in his Treatise Concerning the Good and Happy Man 212

From Theages, in his Treatise On the Virtues 222

From Metopus, in his Treatise Concerning Virtue 227

From Clinias 231

From Theages, in his Treatise On the Virtues 233

From the Treatise of Archytas On Ethical Erudition 242

From Archytas, in his Treatise On the Good and Happy Man 244

From Crito, in his Treatise On Prudence and Prosperity 245

From Archytas, in his Treatise On the Good and Happy Man 250

From Archytas, in his Treatise On Disciplines 252

From Polus, in his Treatise On Justice 254

Pythagoric Ethical Sentences from Stobæus, which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale 259

Select Sentences of Sextus the Pythagorean 268

Pythagoric Sentences, from the Protreptics of Iamblichus 278