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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    cation of youtlj to some Illyrian or Thracian, who are men of no worth. The first legislators, however, as they could not render the middle class of mankind stable, adjoined [in their edu¬ cation] dancing and rhythm, which participate of motion alone and order; and besides these they added sports, some of which exhorted them to fellowship, but others to truth and mental acuteness. In a similar manner also they instituted for those who through intoxica¬ tion or repletion had committed any crime, the pipe and harmony, by which they gave an ar¬ rangement to the mind, so that the manners being matured and rendered mild, they might be capable of being adorned. FROM THE TREATISE OF ARCHYTAS ON LAW , AND JUSTICE. I say that every [political] association con¬ sists of a governor and the governed; and of a third thing, viz. the laws. Of laws, however, one is animated, viz. a king; but another inani¬ mate, viz. written law. The first law, there¬ fore, is animated#; and if it is observed, the * In the original there is only ττρωτος ων ο νομος, which is evidently defective; but by adding έμψυχος the sensei will be complete. And in what immediately follows τοντω yap ο μεν βασιλεύς νόμιμός which also is defective, Gesner adds τηρησει after τοντω yap, but he should doubtless have added ει τηρησει.