of the purest particles of water and sea.
These are the doctrines which Alexander asserts that he discovered in the Pythagorean treatises; and Aristotle gives a similar account of them.
XV. Timon, in his Silli, has not left unnoticed the dignified appearance of Pythagoras, when he attacks him on other points. And his words are these:—
And respecting his having been different people at different times, Xenophanes adds his evidence in an elegiac poem which commences thus:—
And the passage in which he mentions Pythagoras is as follows:—
These are the words of Xenophanes.
Cratinus also ridiculed him in his Pythagorean Woman; but in his Tarentines, he speaks thus:—
And Mnesimachus says in his Alcmæon:—
Aristophon says in his Pythagorean:—
And again, in the same play he says:—
XXI. Pythagoras died in this manner. When he was sitting with some of his companions in Milo’s house, some one of those whom he did not think worthy of admission into it, was excited by