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XenophanesFr. 7 D. confirms the statement about his having been different people at different times in the elegiacs beginning: Now other thoughts, another path, I show. What he says of him is as follows: They say that, passing a belaboured whelp, He, full of pity, spake these words of dole: Stay, smite not ! ’Tis a friend, a human soul; I knew him straight whenas I heard him yelp !
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Thus Xenophanes. But Cratinus also lampooned him both in the Pythagorizing Woman and also in The Tarentines, where we readCratin. minor, Meineke, C.G.F. iii. 376.: They are wont, If haply they a foreigner do find, To hold a cross-examination Of doctrines’ worth, to trouble and confound him With terms, equations, and antitheses Brain-bung’d with magnitudes and periphrases. Again, Mnesimachus in the AlcmaeonMeineke, C.G.F. iii. 567.: To Loxias we sacrifice: Pythagoras his rite, Of nothing that is animate we ever take a bite.
