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as the barbarians do even to this day; and you should not divide bread which brings them together; some give as the explanation of this that it has reference to the judgement of the dead in Hades, others that bread makes cowards in war, others again that it is from it that the whole world begins.This may have some hidden sense: but it is tempting to adopt τόπου for τούτου with the Borbonicus.
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He held that the most beautiful figure is the sphere among solids, and the circle among plane figures. Old age may be compared to everything that is decreasing, while youth is one with increase. Health means retention of the form, disease its destruction. Of salt he said it should be brought to table to remind us of what is right; for salt preserves whatever it finds, and it arises from the purest sources, sun and sea.
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This is what Alexander says that he found in the Pythagorean memoirs.Alexander is cited above (§ 24). εὑρηκέναι comes in both sections. This means that, in the Lives of Pythagoras which D. L. consulted, the extract from Alexander has displaced a passage which came from a spurious Aristotelian treatise Περὶ Πυθαγορείων. What follows is Aristotle’s.
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But Pythagoras’s great dignity not even Timon overlooked, who, although he digs at him in his Silli,Fr. 58 D. speaks of Pythagoras, inclined to witching works and ways, Man-snarer, fond of noble periphrase.
