1. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus, reliability as a source • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus) • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus), ethical principles of
Found in books: Huffman (2019) 90; Wolfsdorf (2020) 707
942d. ἐκ παντὸς τοῦ βίου ἁπάντων τῶν ἀνθρώπων τε καὶ τῶν ὑπʼ ἀνθρώπους θηρίων. καὶ δὴ καὶ χορείας πάσας εἰς τὰς ἀριστείας τὰς κατὰ πόλεμον βλεπούσας χορεύειν, καὶ ὅλην εὐκολίαν τε καὶ εὐχέρειαν ἐπιτηδεύειν τῶν αὐτῶν εἵνεκα, καρτερήσεις τε αὖ σίτων καὶ ποτῶν καὶ χειμώνων καὶ τῶν ἐναντίων καὶ κοίτης σκληρᾶς, καὶ τὸ μέγιστον, τὴν τῆς κεφαλῆς καὶ ποδῶν δύναμιν μὴ διαφθείρειν τῇ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων σκεπασμάτων περικαλυφῇ, τὴν τῶν οἰκείων ἀπολλύντας''. None | 942d. must be utterly removed from the lives of all mankind, and of the beasts also that are subject to man. Moreover, with a view to excellence in war, they shall dance all kinds of dances, and with the same object they shall cultivate in general suppleness and dexterity, and endurance also in the matter of foods and drinks and cold and heat and hard beds; and, what is most important, they shall accustom themselves not to spoil the natural powers of head and feet by wrapping them in coverings of alien material, and thereby ruining the production and growth''. None |
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2. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus
Found in books: Bryan (2018) 97; Wardy and Warren (2018) 97
274b. πάσχειν ὅτι ἄν τῳ συμβῇ παθεῖν. ΦΑΙ. καὶ μάλα. ΣΩ. οὐκοῦν τὸ μὲν τέχνης τε καὶ ἀτεχνίας λόγων πέρι ἱκανῶς ἐχέτω. ΦΑΙ. τί μήν; ΣΩ. τὸ δʼ εὐπρεπείας δὴ γραφῆς πέρι καὶ ἀπρεπείας, πῇ γιγνόμενον καλῶς ἂν ἔχοι καὶ ὅπῃ ἀπρεπῶς, λοιπόν. ἦ γάρ; ΦΑΙ. ναί. ΣΩ. οἶσθʼ οὖν ὅπῃ μάλιστα θεῷ χαριῇ λόγων πέρι πράττων ἢ λέγων; ΦΑΙ. οὐδαμῶς· σὺ δέ;''. None | 274b. noble objects, no matter what happens to us. Phaedrus. Certainly. Socrates. We have, then, said enough about the art of speaking and that which is no art. Phaedrus. Assuredly. Socrates. But we have still to speak of propriety and impropriety in writing, how it should be done and how it is improper, have we not? Phaedrus. Yes. Socrates. Do you know how you can act or speak about rhetoric so as to please God best? Phaedrus. Not at all; do you?''. None |
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3. Plato, Philebus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus) • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus), ethical principles of
Found in books: Lloyd (1989) 329; Wolfsdorf (2020) 708
25e. ἄλληλα τἀναντία διαφόρως ἔχοντα, σύμμετρα δὲ καὶ σύμφωνα ἐνθεῖσα ἀριθμὸν ἀπεργάζεται. ΠΡΩ. μανθάνω· φαίνῃ γάρ μοι λέγειν μειγνὺς ταῦτα γενέσεις τινὰς ἐφʼ ἑκάστων αὐτῶν συμβαίνειν. ΣΩ. ὀρθῶς γὰρ φαίνομαι. ΠΡΩ. λέγε τοίνυν. ΣΩ. ἆρα οὐκ ἐν μὲν νόσοις ἡ τούτων ὀρθὴ κοινωνία τὴν ὑγιείας φύσιν ἐγέννησεν;''. None | 25e. to the differences between opposites and makes them commensurable and harmonious by the introduction of number. Pro. I understand. I think you mean that by mixture of these elements certain results are produced in each instance. Soc. Yes, you are right. Pro. Go on. Soc. In cases of illness, does not the proper combination of these elements produce health?''. None |
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4. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus • Aristoxenus, as a Pythagorean • Aristoxenus, reliability as a source • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus) • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus), rationality of • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus), sources and influences
Found in books: Cornelli (2013) 274; Huffman (2019) 86, 99; Wolfsdorf (2020) 703
537c. τά τε χύδην μαθήματα παισὶν ἐν τῇ παιδείᾳ γενόμενα τούτοις συνακτέον εἰς σύνοψιν οἰκειότητός τε ἀλλήλων τῶν μαθημάτων καὶ τῆς τοῦ ὄντος φύσεως.'600b. συνουσίᾳ καὶ τοῖς ὑστέροις ὁδόν τινα παρέδοσαν βίου Ὁμηρικήν, ὥσπερ Πυθαγόρας αὐτός τε διαφερόντως ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἠγαπήθη, καὶ οἱ ὕστεροι ἔτι καὶ νῦν Πυθαγόρειον τρόπον ἐπονομάζοντες τοῦ βίου διαφανεῖς πῃ δοκοῦσιν εἶναι ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις; '. None | 537c. and they will be required to gather the studies which they disconnectedly pursued as children in their former education into a comprehensive survey of their affinities with one another and with the nature of things.” “That, at any rate, he said, is the only instruction that abides with those who receive it.” “And it is also,” said I, “the chief test of the dialectical nature and its opposite. For he who can view things in their connection is a dialectician; he who cannot, is not.” “I concur,” he said. “With these qualities in mind,” I said,'600b. and transmitted to posterity a certain Homeric way of life just as Pythagoras was himself especially honored for this, and his successors, even to this day, denominating a certain way of life the Pythagorean, are distinguished among their contemporaries? No, nothing of this sort either is reported; for Creophylos, Socrates, the friend of Homer, would perhaps be even more ridiculous than his name as a representative of Homeric culture and education, if what is said about Homer is true. For the tradition is that Homer was completely neglected in his own lifetime by that friend of the flesh. '. None |
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5. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus, reliability as a source • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus) • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus), rationality of • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus), sources and influences
Found in books: Huffman (2019) 98; Wolfsdorf (2020) 703
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6. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus • Aristoxenus, Aristotelian, Soul an attunement
Found in books: Carter (2019) 123, 132; Sorabji (2000) 254
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7. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus
Found in books: Bryan (2018) 97; Gerson and Wilberding (2022) 36, 107; Lloyd (1989) 206, 329; Motta and Petrucci (2022) 186, 195; Wardy and Warren (2018) 97
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8. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus • Aristoxenus xxv, and On Law and Justice
Found in books: Erler et al (2021) 123; Wolfsdorf (2020) 480
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9. None, None, nan (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus • Aristoxenus of Tarentum • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus) • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus), vs. other evidence on Pythagoreanism
Found in books: Horkey (2019) 31; Lloyd (1989) 243; Motta and Petrucci (2022) 190; Wolfsdorf (2020) 710
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10. Cicero, On The Ends of Good And Evil, 5.87 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus
Found in books: Erler et al (2021) 123; Wardy and Warren (2018) 164
5.87. quare hoc hoc atque hoc Non. videndum est, possitne nobis hoc ratio philosophorum dare. pollicetur certe. nisi enim id faceret, cur Plato Aegyptum peragravit, ut a sacerdotibus barbaris numeros et caelestia acciperet? cur post Tarentum ad Archytam? cur ad reliquos Pythagoreos, Echecratem, Timaeum, Arionem, Locros, ut, cum Socratem expressisset, adiungeret Pythagoreorum disciplinam eaque, quae Socrates repudiabat, addisceret? cur ipse Pythagoras et Aegyptum lustravit et Persarum magos adiit? cur tantas regiones barbarorum pedibus obiit, tot maria transmisit? cur haec eadem Democritus? qui —vere falsone, quaerere mittimus quaerere mittimus Se. quereremus BER queremus V quae- rere nolumus C.F.W. Mue. —dicitur oculis se se oculis BE privasse; privavisse R certe, ut quam minime animus a cogitationibus abduceretur, patrimonium neglexit, agros deseruit incultos, quid quaerens aliud nisi vitam beatam? beatam vitam R quam si etiam in rerum cognitione ponebat, tamen ex illa investigatione naturae consequi volebat, bono ut esset animo. id enim ille id enim ille R ideo enim ille BE id ille V id est enim illi summum bonum; eu)qumi/an cet. coni. Mdv. summum bonum eu)qumi/an et saepe a)qambi/an appellat, id est animum terrore liberum.''. None | 5.87. \xa0On this your cousin and\xa0I are agreed. Hence what we have to consider is this, can the systems of the philosophers give us happiness? They certainly profess to do so. Whether it not so, why did Plato travel through Egypt to learn arithmetic and astronomy from barbarian priests? Why did he later visit Archytas at Tarentum, or the other Pythagoreans, Echecrates, Timaeus and Arion, at Locri, intending to append to his picture of Socrates an account of the Pythagorean system and to extend his studies into those branches which Socrates repudiated? Why did Pythagoras himself scour Egypt and visit the Persian magi? why did he travel on foot through those vast barbarian lands and sail across those many seas? Why did Democritus do the same? It is related of Democritus (whether truly or falsely we are not concerned to inquire) that he deprived himself of eyesight; and it is certain that in order that his mind should be distracted as little as possible from reflection, he neglected his paternal estate and left his land uncultivated, engrossed in the search for what else but happiness? Even if he supposed happiness to consist in knowledge, still he designed that his study of natural philosophy should bring him cheerfulness of mind; since that is his conception of the Chief Good, which he entitles euthumia, or often athambia, that is freedom from alarm. <''. None |
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11. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus
Found in books: Erler et al (2021) 123; Wardy and Warren (2018) 164
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12. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.1-15.8, 15.60-15.72 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus • Aristoxenus of Tarentum
Found in books: Gruen (2011) 345; Wardy and Warren (2018) 164
15.1. Quaeritur interea quis tantae pondera molis 15.2. sustineat tantoque queat succedere regi: 15.3. destinat imperio clarum praenuntia veri 15.4. fama Numam; non ille satis cognosse Sabinae 15.5. gentis habet ritus: animo maiora capaci 15.6. concipit et, quae sit rerum natura, requirit. 15.7. Huius amor curae, patria Curibusque relictis, 15.8. fecit ut Herculei penetraret ad hospitis urbem.
15.60. Vir fuit hic, ortu Samius, sed fugerat una 15.61. et Samon et dominos odioque tyrannidis exsul 15.62. sponte erat, isque, licet caeli regione remotos, 15.63. mente deos adiit et quae natura negabat 15.64. visibus humanis, oculis ea pectoris hausit, 15.66. in medium discenda dabat coetusque silentum 15.67. dictaque mirantum magni primordia mundi 15.68. et rerum causas et, quid natura, docebat, 15.69. quid deus, unde nives, quae fulminis esset origo, 15.70. Iuppiter an venti discussa nube tonarent, 15.71. quid quateret terras, qua sidera lege mearent — 15.72. et quodcumque latet; primusque animalia mensis' '. None | 15.1. While this was happening, they began to seek 15.2. for one who could endure the weight of such 15.3. a task and could succeed a king so great; 15.4. and Fame, the harbinger of truth, destined 15.5. illustrious Numa for the sovereign power. 15.6. It did not satisfy his heart to know 15.7. only the Sabine ceremonials, 15.8. and he conceived in his expansive mind
15.60. and suppliant in neglected garb, exclaimed, 15.61. ‘Oh mighty Hercules , for whom alone 15.62. the twice six labors gave the privilege 15.63. of heavenly residence, give me your aid, 15.64. for you were the true cause of my offence.’ 15.66. to vote with chosen pebbles, white and black. 15.67. The white absolved, the black condemned the man. 15.68. And so that day the fateful votes were given—: 15.69. all cast into the cruel urn were black! 15.70. Soon as that urn inverted poured forth all 15.71. the pebbles to be counted, every one 15.72. was changed completely from its black to white,' '. None |
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13. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 8.6-8.7, 8.25, 8.46 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Archytas, Aristoxenus and • Aristoxenus • Aristoxenus of Tarentum • Aristoxenus xxv, life • Aristoxenus, as a Peripatetic • Aristoxenus, as a Pythagorean • Aristoxenus, biography of • Aristoxenus, connection to Pythagoreanism • Aristoxenus, reliability as a source • Aristoxenus, use of plurals in the Precepts • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus) • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus), sources and influences • Wehrli, F., edition of Aristoxenus works on the Pythagoreans
Found in books: Bryan (2018) 165; Cornelli (2013) 249; Horkey (2019) 26; Huffman (2019) 10, 83, 84, 85, 86, 336; Wardy and Warren (2018) 164, 165; Wolfsdorf (2020) 702
| 8.6. There are some who insist, absurdly enough, that Pythagoras left no writings whatever. At all events Heraclitus, the physicist, almost shouts in our ear, Pythagoras, son of Mnesarchus, practised inquiry beyond all other men, and in this selection of his writings made himself a wisdom of his own, showing much learning but poor workmanship. The occasion of this remark was the opening words of Pythagoras's treatise On Nature, namely, Nay, I swear by the air I breathe, I swear by the water I drink, I will never suffer censure on account of this work. Pythagoras in fact wrote three books. On Education, On Statesmanship, and On Nature." '8.7. But the book which passes as the work of Pythagoras is by Lysis of Tarentum, a Pythagorean, who fled to Thebes and taught Epaminondas. Heraclides, the son of Serapion, in his Epitome of Sotion, says that he also wrote a poem On the Universe, and secondly the Sacred Poem which begins:Young men, come reverence in quietudeAll these my words;thirdly On the Soul, fourthly of Piety, fifthly Helothales the Father of Epicharmus of Cos, sixthly Croton, and other works as well. The same authority says that the poem On the Mysteries was written by Hippasus to defame Pythagoras, and that many others written by Aston of Croton were ascribed to Pythagoras.
8.25. The principle of all things is the monad or unit; arising from this monad the undefined dyad or two serves as material substratum to the monad, which is cause; from the monad and the undefined dyad spring numbers; from numbers, points; from points, lines; from lines, plane figures; from plane figures, solid figures; from solid figures, sensible bodies, the elements of which are four, fire, water, earth and air; these elements interchange and turn into one another completely, and combine to produce a universe animate, intelligent, spherical, with the earth at its centre, the earth itself too being spherical and inhabited round about. There are also antipodes, and our down is their up.
8.46. For the last of the Pythagoreans, whom Aristoxenus in his time saw, were Xenophilus from the Thracian Chalcidice, Phanton of Phlius, and Echecrates, Diocles and Polymnastus, also of Phlius, who were pupils of Philolaus and Eurytus of Tarentum.There were four men of the name of Pythagoras living about the same time and at no great distance from one another: (1) of Croton, a man with tyrannical leanings; (2) of Phlius, an athlete, some say a trainer; (3) of Zacynthus; (4) our subject, who discovered the secrets of philosophy, and to whom was applied the phrase, The Master said (Ipse dixit), which passed into a proverb of ordinary life.'". None |
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14. Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras, 19-22, 37-45, 54 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus • Aristoxenus of Tarentum • Aristoxenus, account of pleasure not Platonic or Aristotelian • Aristoxenus, and Zaleucus and Charondas • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus) • Pythagorean Precepts (Aristoxenus), ethical principles of • Wehrli, F., edition of Aristoxenus works on the Pythagoreans • dependence on Aristoxenus
Found in books: Cornelli (2013) 9, 20; Gruen (2011) 346; Huffman (2019) 58, 279, 284, 336, 358; Wardy and Warren (2018) 164; Wolfsdorf (2020) 707
| 19. Through this he achieved great reputation, he drew great audiences from the city, not only of men, but also of women, among whom was a specially illustrious person named Theano. He also drew audiences from among the neighboring barbarians, among whom were magnates and kings. What he told his audiences cannot be said with certainty, for he enjoined silence upon his hearers. But the following is a matter of general information. He taught that the soul was immortal and that after death it transmigrated into other animated bodies. After certain specified periods, the same events occur again; that nothing was entirely new; that all animated beings were kin, and should be considered as belonging to one great family. Pythagoras was the first one to introduce these teachings into Greece. 37. His utterances were of two kinds, plain or symbolical. His teaching was twofold: of his disciples some were called Students, and others Hearers. The Students learned the fuller and more exactly elaborate reasons of science, while the Hearers heard only the chief heads of learning, without more detailed explanations. 54. Pythagoras and his associates were long held in such admiration in Italy, that many cities invited them to undertake their administration. At last, however, they incurred envy, and a conspiracy was formed against them as follows. Cylon, a Crotonian, who in race, nobility and wealth was the most preeminent, was of a severe, violent and tyrannical disposition, and did not scruple to use the multitude of his followers to compass his ends. As he esteemed himself worthy of whatever was best, he considered it his right to be admitted to Pythagorean fellowship. He therefore went to Pythagoras extolled himself, and desired his conversation. Pythagoras, however, who was accustomed to read in human bodies' nature and manners the disposition of the man, bade him depart, and go about his business. Cylon, being of a rough and violent disposition, took it as a great affront, and became furious. |
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15. None, None, nan (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus • Aristoxenus of Tarentum • Aristoxenus, On the Pythagorean Way of Life • Aristoxenus, account of procreation not derived from Aristotle • Aristoxenus, and Zaleucus and Charondas • Wehrli, F., edition of Aristoxenus works on the Pythagoreans
Found in books: Erler et al (2021) 123, 124, 125, 126; Horkey (2019) 31; Huffman (2019) 44, 282, 283, 384; Wardy and Warren (2018) 164
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16. None, None, nan (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus
Found in books: Lloyd (1989) 296; Motta and Petrucci (2022) 190
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17. None, None, nan (missingth cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristoxenus
Found in books: Bryan (2018) 97; Wardy and Warren (2018) 97
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