The golden verses of PythagorasFabre d'Olivet, Antoine
Religion
The golden verses of Pythagoras
Fabre d'Olivet, Antoine
Poetry -- History and criticism; Pythagoras and Pythagorean school
[529] Plutar., _de Facie in Orb. lun._, p. 943.
[530] The first kind of virtue is called ἀνθρωπίνη, human,
and the second ἡρωικὴ καὶ δία, heroic and divine. Attention
should be given to these epithets which are related to the
three principal faculties of man. Aristot., _ad Nicom._, l.
vii., c. 1; Plato, _in Theætet._; Gallien, _in Cognit et
Curat. morb. anim._, l. i., c. 3, et 6; Theod. Marcil, _in
Aur. Carmin._
[531] _In Somn. Scip._, c. 8.
[532] Aristot., _de Cælo et Mundo_, l. i.; Philo, _de Mund.
opific._.
[533] Pausan., _in Corinth._, p. 72; Tzetz., _in Schol._
[534] Suidas, _in_ Εποπ; Harpocr., _ibid_.
[535] Clem. Alex., l. v., p. 582.
[536] Psellus, _Ad Oracul. Zoroastr._
[537] Meurs. Eleus., c. 12; Dion. Chrysost., _Orat._ xii.
[538] Sophocl. _apud_ Plutar., _De Audiend. Poet. Schol._;
Aristoph., _De Pace._
[539] Porphyr., _Vitâ Pythag._, p. 5.
[540] γνῶσις, _savant_.
[541] Epiph., l. i.; Plucquet, _Dictionn. des Hérésies_, t.
ii., p. 72.
[542] Diod. Sicul., l. i.; Herodot., l. ii.
[543] Aristot., _Polit._, l. ii.; Strab., l. viii.
[544] _Voyez_ DANIEL, et conférez avec Court de Gébelin,
_Monde primitif_, t. viii., p. 9.
[545] _Zend-Avesta_, 14ᵉ _hâ_, p. 127.
[546] Pomp. Mela, iii., c. 2; César, l. vi., c. 14;
Pelloutier, _Hist. des Celtes_, l. iv., ch. 1, § 27 et 30.
[547] The first _Shastra_ is entitled _Djatimala_. I am
ignorant of the title of the other, that I cite from Henry
Lord: _Discovery of the Banian Religion_, in Church,
_Collect._, vol. vi.
[548] _Asiat. Research._, tom. vi., p. 254.
[549] _Mémoir. concern. les Chin._, t. ii., p. 174 _et suiv._
[550] _Vie de Kong-Tzée_, p. 237 et suiv.
[551] _Voyez_ le 12ᵉ Examen.
[552] Porphyr., _Vitâ Pythag._
[553] Plato, _ut suprà._
[554] Synes., _De Provident._, c. 5.
[555] Beausobre, _Hist. du Manich._, t. ii., p. 33.
[556] Tatian, _Orat. contr. Græc._, p. 152.
[557] Plato, _In Gorgia_; ibid., _In Phæd._; ibid., _De
Rep._, l. vii.; August., _De Civit. Dei_, l. iii., c. 1, et
l. x., c. 29.
[558] Diogen. Laërt., l. x., § 123; Cicero, _De Nat. Deor._,
l. i., c. 30.
[559] Cicer., _ibid._, c. 8 _et seq._
[560] Cicer., _ut suprà._
[561] Diogen. Laërt., l. x., § 123.
[562] _Dict. critiq._, art. EPICURE, rem. T.
[563] _Mém. concern. les Chin._, t. i., p. 102 et 138.
[564] _Asiat. Research._, vol. vi., p. 215. _Voyez_ les
Pouranas intitulés, _Bhagavad-Vedam_ et _Bhagavad-Gita_, et
conférez avec les _Recherches asiatiq._, t. v., p. 350 _et
suiv._, et avec l’ouvrage de Holwell (_Interest. Hist.
Events_), ch. 4, § 5, etc.
[565] Cicer., cité par S. August., _Contr. Pelag._, l. iv.;
Pindar, _Olymp._, ii., v. 122.
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