[256] Hiérocl., Aurea Carmin., v. 1.
[257] Ci-devant, p. 81.
[258] Timée de Locres, ch. 3; Edit. de Batteux, § 8; Diod. Sicul., l. ii., p. 83; Herod., l. ii., c. 4; Hyde, De vet. Pers. Relig., c. 19; Plato, In Tim., In Phæd., In Legib., etc.
[259] Bailly, Hist. de l’Astr. anc., l. iii., § 10.
[260] Pythagoras, at an early age, was taken to Tyre by Mnesarchus, his father, in order to study there the doctrine of the Phœnicians; later he visited Egypt, Arabia, and Babylon, in which last city he remained twelve years. It was while there that he had frequent conferences concerning the principle of things with a very learned magian whom Porphyry names Zabratos; Plutarch, Zaratas; and Theodoret, Zaradas. (Porphyr., Vitâ Pythag.) Plutarch is inclined to believe that this magian is the same as Zardusht, or Zoroaster, and the chronology is not here entirely contrary. (Plutar., De Procreat. anim.; Hyde, De Relig. vet. Pers., c. 24, o. 309 et c. 31, p. 379.)
[261] Asiat. Research., t. vi., p. 174.
[262] Holwell’s, Histor. Interest. Events, ch.iv., § 5.
[263] Beausobre, Hist. du Manich., t. i., p. 164.
[264] Macrob., Somn. Scip., l. i., c. 11.
[265] Böhme, Les Six Points, ch. 2.