Political fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and other ancient Pythagoreans, preserved by Stobaeus; and also, ethical fragments of Hierocles ... preserved by the same author / Translated from the Greek. By Thomas Taylor.

  • Thomas Taylor
Date:
1822
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Credit: Political fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and other ancient Pythagoreans, preserved by Stobaeus; and also, ethical fragments of Hierocles ... preserved by the same author / Translated from the Greek. By Thomas Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Xlll some of it in the hollow of his hand, and besprinkled with it the judge, at the same time exclaiming*: Cyclops, since human flesh is thy delight. Now drink this wine*. Being banished, most probably in con¬ sequence of this magnanimous behaviour, and returning some time after to Alexan¬ dria, he gave philosophical lectures to his auditors in his usual manner. Suidas adds, that the grandeur of the conceptions of Those men the first who of Egyptian birth Drank the fair water of Nilotic earth. Disclosed by actions infinite this road, And many paths to God Phoenicians sliow’d. This road the Assyrians pointed out to view. And this the Lydians and Chaldeans knew. But when Porphyry says that the Greeks have wandered from the path which leads to divinity, he alludes to their worshipping men as Gods ; which, as I have shown in the Introduction to my translation of Proclus On the Theology of Plato, is contrary to the genuine doctrine of the heathen religion; and was the cause of its corruption, and final extinction, among the Greeks and Romans.
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