[85] Miller would substitute νομιστέον for προστιθέμενον.
[86] These verses are said by Cruice to be in Sextus Empiricus, but I have not been able to find them in any known writings of that author.
[87] νοητά, as opposed to αἰσθητά.
[88] Cf. Matt. v. 18.
[89] These “accidents” are enumerated by Aristotle in his Metaphysics, Book IV, and more briefly in his Organon. He does not there acknowledge any indebtedness to Pythagoras.
[90] συνέχει.
[91] φιλία, not ἀγάπη. Macmahon translates “friendship.”
[92] i. e. the “Fashioner” = one who makes things out of previously existing material, but does not create them ex nihilo.
[93] διανομή, a word peculiar apparently to the Pythagoreans. Jowett translates it “regulation.”
[94] ἀπορῥαγάδας, a word unknown in classical Greek, which should by its etymology mean “chinks” or “rents.” I have taken it as a mistake for ἀπορῥήματα, which is found in Plutarch.