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Diogenes Laertius, Lives Of The Philosophers, 8.46

nan 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.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Philolaus of Croton, Fragments, 6 (5th cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
2. Plato, Philebus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 31a. and what power it possesses. Pro. Certainly. Soc. And likewise the class of pleasure was made clear some time ago. Pro. Yes, it was. Soc. Let us, then, remember concerning both of them that mind was akin to cause and belonged more or less to that class, and that pleasure was itself infinite and belonged to the class which, in and by itself, has not and never will have either beginning or middle or end.
3. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 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.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
abortion	Huffman (2019) 123
archytas,aristoxenus and	Wolfsdorf (2020) 702
archytas	Huffman (2019) 10
aristotle,relationship to pythagorean precepts	Wolfsdorf (2020) 702
aristoxenus,as a peripatetic	Huffman (2019) 85
aristoxenus,as a pythagorean	Huffman (2019) 86
aristoxenus,biography of	Huffman (2019) 83, 85
aristoxenus,connection to pythagoreanism	Huffman (2019) 10
aristoxenus,reliability as a source	Huffman (2019) 83, 84, 85, 86
aristoxenus,use of plurals in the precepts	Huffman (2019) 10
aristoxenus	Cornelli (2013) 249
aristoxenus xxv,life	Wolfsdorf (2020) 702
burkert,walter	Wolfsdorf (2020) 702
drunkenness	Huffman (2019) 123
echecrates	Cornelli (2013) 249; Huffman (2019) 10, 83, 85, 86
epicurus	Huffman (2019) 421
eurytus	Cornelli (2013) 249
evil	Huffman (2019) 123
expertise	Huffman (2019) 123
god,as number of numbers	Schibli (2002) 277
god,creator-god (δημι ουργός θεός)	Schibli (2002) 277
god,tetrad/tetractys	Schibli (2002) 277
huffman,c.a.	Cornelli (2013) 249
incest	Huffman (2019) 123
kahn,c.h.	Cornelli (2013) 249
meno	Cornelli (2013) 249
numbers	Schibli (2002) 277
oaths,of the tetractys	Schibli (2002) 277
philolaus	Cornelli (2013) 249; Huffman (2019) 123, 201, 421
plato,on pythagoreanism	Huffman (2019) 86
plato,relationship to pythagorean precepts	Wolfsdorf (2020) 702
plato	Cornelli (2013) 249
procreation	Huffman (2019) 123
pseudo-pythagorean writings	Huffman (2019) 86
pythagoras,sacred text attributed to	Schibli (2002) 277
pythagoras,teacher of truth	Schibli (2002) 277
pythagorean precepts,characteristics of	Huffman (2019) 83
pythagorean precepts (aristoxenus),sources and influences	Wolfsdorf (2020) 702
pythagorean precepts (aristoxenus)	Wolfsdorf (2020) 702
pythagoreanism xxv	Wolfsdorf (2020) 702
rape	Huffman (2019) 123
sex	Huffman (2019) 123
simmias	Cornelli (2013) 249
socrates'	Cornelli (2013) 249
soul	Huffman (2019) 201
spintharus	Huffman (2019) 83
starting point	Huffman (2019) 123
stobaeus,as source for pythagoreanism	Wolfsdorf (2020) 702
tetrad/tetractys	Schibli (2002) 277
truth	Schibli (2002) 277
world-order (διάκοσμος / (διακόσμησις)	Schibli (2002) 277
xenophilus	Huffman (2019) 10, 83, 84, 85, 86; Wolfsdorf (2020) 702