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Plutarch too, a man of weight in scientific matters, in the first book of his work On Homer wrote that Aristotle Fr. 194, Rose. gave the same account of the Pythagoreans: namely, that except for a few parts of the flesh they did not abstain from eating animals. Since the statement is contrary to the general belief, I have appended Plutarch's own words: vii., p. 100, Bern. Aristotle says that the Pythagoreans abstained from the matrix, the heart, the a)kalh/fh and some other such things, but used all other animal food. Now the a)kalh/fh is a marine creature which is called the sea-nettle. But Plutarch in his Table Talk says viii. 8. that the Pythagoreans also abstained from mullets.
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But as to Pythagoras himself, while it is well known that he declared that he had come into the world as Euphorbus, what Cleanthes F. H. G. ii. 317. and Dicaearchus F. H. G. ii. 244. have recorded is less familiar—that he was afterwards Pyrrhus Pyranthius, then Aethalides, and then a beautiful courtesan, whose name was Alco.
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Instances of disgrace and punishment inflicted by the censors, found in ancient records and worthy of notice.
