Book 8
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Further, we are told that he was the first to call the heaven the universe and the earth spherical,As Favorinus seems to have paid special attention to discoveries and the invention of names (cf. ii. 1, 20, viii. 12, 47, ix. 23, 34), it seems likely that he is our author’s authority here; so probably a different book of Favorinus is cited. though Theophrastus says it was Parmenides, and Zeno that it was Hesiod.
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It is said that Cylon was a rival of Pythagoras, as AntilochusApelt suggests Antiphon, comparing Xen. Mem. i. 6. was of Socrates.
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Pythagoras the athlete was also the subject of another epigram as followsAnth. Plan. iii. 16.: Gone to box with other lads Is the lad Pythagoras, Gone to the games Olympian Crates’ son the Samian. The philosopher also wrote the following letter:
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Pythagoras to Anaximenes.
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Even you, O most excellent of men, were you no better born and famed than Pythagoras, would have risen and departed from Miletus. But now your ancestral glory has detained you as it had detained me were I Anaximenes’s peer. But if you, the best men, abandon your cities, then will their good order perish, and the peril from the Medes will increase.
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For always to scan the heavens is not well, but more seemly is it to be provident for one’s mother country. For I too am not altogether in my discourses but am found no less in the wars which the Italians wage with one another.
